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12/13/16
- The CRTC has approved an application by CBC to increase the
effective radiated power of CBYX-FM 92.7 Enderby from 135 to 201 watts
and increase the effective height of the antenna above average terrain
from -197.0 to -167.1 metres. CBYX-FM rebroadcasts the signal of
CBTK-FM 88.9 Kelowna. The licensee stated that the requested
technical changes will improve the quality of the Radio One signal for the residents of Enderby. CRTC release

11/30/16 - Former KOOL-FM
CHBE-FM 107.3 Victoria morning host Robin Farrell, who was released in
August after an 11-year run has found a new home. She has Tweeted
that she joins the morning team with Darren Worts at Q103.1
CKQQ-FM Kelowna beginning January 9th. Prior to Victoria, she
worked in the Vancouver radio market. Susan Knight moves to
middays and transitions to PD in the spring. Danny Kid will anchor
p.m. drive and handle APD duties and “Your Girl” Brooklyn will move
into evenings and weekends.

11/24/16 - Effective early December, former Sun FM CHSU-FM 99.9 Kelowna morning co-hostChristy Farrell moves from Wild CKWD-FM 95.3 mornings to KooL
CKCE-FM 101.5 Calgary along with co-host Fraser Tuff. It's part
of a Jim Pattison Broadcast Group shuffling at its Calgary
stations. Farrell left the Okanagan in March this year.

11/15/16
- Legendary broadcaster Red Robinson will be visiting Kelowna and West
Kelowna Wednesday (11/16) as part of the Better Hearing Expo
to speak about his recent battle with hearing loss. He will speak
at the Coast Capri Hotel at 10 a.m. and at the Heritage Retirement
Resort in West Kelowna at 2 p.m. Wednesday about the positive effect
hearing treatment has had on him and the specific hearing aid that has
helped reduce background noise. Dylan McCullough, Kelowna Now

11/09/16
- The BC Association of Broadcasters will celebrate its 70th Annual
Conference May 16-18, 2017 at the Watermark Beach Resort, in
Osoyoos. BCAB release

11/07/16 - Steve Marlow, Programming Coordinator at campus-based community station The X CFBX-FM 92.5
Kamloops, says Canada should once again have its own Top 40 music
charts. Current charts are produced entirely outside of our
Canada. Steve Marlow, Kamloops This Week

10/20/16 - Susan Knight, morning show co-host of the Big Breakfast at Q103.1 CKKQ-FM Kelowna, has been appointed APD. She's been with the Jim Pattison Broadcast Group station since June 2014.

09/12/16 - K96.3 CKKO-FM
Kelowna made some changes to its imaging today with a new website logo
that drops the Kelowna name buts remains Classic Rock. Meanwhile
both Penticton and Kelowna are in the Fall ratings using the online
diary system for the first time. Additionally, Peach City Radio CFUZ-FM 92.9
Penticton has yet to go on air, but has a studio built in an old
Cannery building along with an office and a full time employee.
The CRTC authorized the new station in May 2015.

08/16/16 - Posted this evening on The PEAK CKPK-FM 102.7 Vancouver morning co-host Kevin Lim
Facebook page, "This is a difficult update to write but we’ve always
prided ourselves in being honest with you. Today we learned that
the station is moving into a new direction and this was our last day
on 102.7 The PEAK and Q103.1 (CKQQ-FM Kelowna).
We’ve worked very hard building this show and while it may no longer
fit the new direction of the station, we look forward to seeing what’s
next. We’ll be sure to keep you updated here on this Facebook
page. For now, we’ll be enjoying some time to sleep in with an
alarm time that doesn’t start with a 3." Kevin Lim FB posting Alex Soloducha, Kelowna Now

08/12/16 - Former Kelowna, Vancouver and Victoria personality Tarzan Dan Freeman, who has also entertained in Calgary and Toronto, has found a new home as p.m. drive host at Greatest Hits station Q107 CFGQ-FM 107.3 Calgary. He begins his new gig on Monday. Twitter announcement

08/06/16 - EZ Rock
CILK-FM 101.5 Kelowna morning host Andy James reveals the reasons for
his recent absence to Puget Sound Radio. Andy and co-host TJ have
been hosting at EZ Rock for well over a decade. PSR News

07/13/16 - Roo Phelps, Country 100.7
CIGV-FM Penticton music director and morning show host has been
nominated for a Canadian Country Music Association (CCMA)
Award. She is among the list of talent nominated in 42 award
categories for the 2016 awards. Phelps has been nominated for
Music Director of the Year – Medium or Small Market, up against four
other music directors from across Canada. She co-hosts the morning
show with Casey Clarke and has worked on-air and as a producer in since
1999, including several years in Vancouver. Anita Sthankiya,
Kelowna Now CCMA Award Nominees

06/30/16 - AM 1150
(CKFR) Kelowna has announced a three-year renewal of its exclusive
agreement with the Western Hockey League’s Kelowna Rockets.
It will provide exclusive, live coverage of all Rockets’ regular season
and playoff games through to the 2018/19 season. Games are voiced
by AM 1150 veteran sportscaster Regan Bartel, who marks his 17th season as the “Voice of the Rockets”. AM 1150 release

06/14/16
- Former newsman Glen Morrison lost his battle with cancer and died
Sunday in hospice at age 67. He began his career as an overnight
DJ at CHNL Kamloops in 1972 and moved to CJIB radio Vernon in 1977,
where he spent 34 years as the morning newsman and News Director.
He retired in March 2015. Morrison was also reported to be one
of the first disabled news reporters in British Columbia. Kate
Bouey, Castanet KISS FM news Vernon Morning Star
obituary

06/03/16 - Fleetwood-Port Kells Member of Parliament Ken Hardie salutes soon-to-be-retiring News Director of NL Broadcasting Ltd
Jim Harrison in the House of Commons. Harrison has been a
reporter and News Director for CHNL Kamloops for over 43 years.
Hardie was PD then Promotion Director for 'NL from 1979-86. Puget Sound Radio Ken Hardie Facebook video

05/26/16 - Numeris
Radio Diary Surveys for February 29 - April 24, 2016 have been
released. Ratings for Kelowna, Kamloops and other medium sized BC
and Canadian markets can be viewed here.

04/28/16 - RTDNA Canada,
The Association of Electronic Journalists, has announced its winners
for excellence in electronic journalism in the BC Region. The
awards recognize the best programs, stations and news gathering
organizations in radio, television and digital. RTDNA Canada release

04/26/16 - Karly Fiddes has been announced as the new co-host of the Sun FM CHSU-FM 99.9 Kelowna morning show with Brian Mack. She previously worked for Juice FM CJUI-FM 103.9 Kelowna and starts her new position in June. Anita Sthankiya, KelownaNow

04/21/16
- Vancouver market CKNW AM 980 anchor, reporter and fill-in talk show
host Shane Woodford leaves the station at the end of May to become the
new News Director at CHNL AM 610 Kamloops. He was an
anchor/reporter at CHNL for two years before joining CKNW in 2011.

04/16/16
- Geoff Hastings is now hosting the 11 p.m. weeknight newscast and
Jordan Armstrong hosts the 5:30, 6:30 and 11 p.m. weekend newscasts at Global Okanagan CHBC-TV. The new hosting began last Monday and originates from the Global Vancouver studios in Burnaby.

03/31/16 - James McIntosh has joined Newcap Radio
Kelowna as Creative Director. He was formerly a creative writer
for Bell Media in Kelowna and continues as a writer/producer and was
co-creator of DarkBlade Studios.

03/22/16 - George McLean,
longtime CBC News journalist, died March 16th in a Toronto
hospital. He was 92. He started his career in Kenora, ON in
1946, moving to Winnipeg in 1952, with a stop at CKOK Penticton as
chief announcer in 1953. In 1956, McLean joined CBC Vancouver as a
staff announcer for CBC Television. In 1965, he was transferred
to Toronto and hosted national newscasts, including The National,
a role he performed until 1986. A funeral service is scheduled
for 2:00 p.m. Wednesday, March 30 in Richmond Hill, ON. CBC News Elgin Mills Visitation Centre obituary

03/21/16
- Bell Media has announced it has secured the weekly, one-hour series
TED Radio Hour for its news/talk radio stations beginning in
April. The program will be aired locally Saturdays at 3 p.m. on AM
1150 CKFR Kelowna. Bell Media release

03/04/16 - Sun FM CHSU-FM 99.9 Kelowna morning co-host Christy Farrell leaves the Okanagan to host mornings at Wild CHPK-FM 95.3 Calgary. The move is effective at the end of April. Formerly AAA The Peak, CHPK flipped to country music as Wild 95.3 on the morning of February 29. Kelsey Davis, KelownaNow

03/04/16
- Kevin Lim and Sonia Sidhu are returning to Kelowna’s airwaves
beginning next Monday, March 7th. They will continue as hosts of
Peak Mornings at The Peak CKPK-FM 102.7 Vancouver but will be syndicated on Q103 CKQQ-FM 103.1
Kelowna from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Both stations are part of the Jim
Pattison Broadcast Group. The pair left Kelowna in April 2014,
with their morning show on Sun FM CHSU-FM 99.9 at the top of the ratings. Vincent Jones, KelownaNow

12/31/15 - John Helm becomes the new Program Director at The River CKRV-FM 97.5
Kamloops effective February 1. He will also host mornings with
Heather Adams. He has been morning co-host for the last five years
and PD for the last two at Vista Radio Castlegar Puget Sound Radio

12/21/15 - Veteran Radio NL CHNL AM 610
Kamloops newsman Jim Harrison has announced his retirement. He
has been NL Radio's News Director since 1975. Harrison has written
and delivered thousands of commentaries along with open line shows at
Radio NL during his time at the station. He was the 2007
recipient of the Jack Webster Foundation's Bruce Hutchison Lifetime
Achievement Award.

12/04/15 (updated) - The River CKRV-FM 97.5 Kamloops PD and morning host Jeff Molnar leaves the station to join QX104 CFQX-FM 104.1 Winnipeg, where he will be APD and host middays starting in mid-January. He joined The River in February this year after spending several years at Rogers Radio stations in Chilliwack.

12/04/15 - Numeris
Radio Diary Surveys for September 7 - November 1, 2015 have been
released. Ratings for Kelowna, Kamloops and other BC and Canadian
markets can be viewed here.

11/19/15 - Newcap Radio has released K96.3 CKKO-FM Kelowna GM & GSM Dallas Gray and Country 100.7
CIGV-FM Penticton Station Manager Ernie Blumke. Former BC
Interior Bell Media Regional Sales Manager Peter Angle becomes the new
GM/GSM for both stations effective November 30. Before that, Angle
was GSM and partner at NL Broadcasting in Kamloops for over 15
years.

11/04/15
- Veteran Victoria television news anchor Hudson Mack returns to
Kamloops, where his broadcast career began, to promote his autobiography
Hudson Mack: Unsinkable Anchor. He worked for two years at
the Broadcast Centre at CFJC-TV Kamloops before becoming Assistant News
Director & Senior Anchor at CHEK-TV Victoria and then News Director
& Senior Anchor at The New VI (now CTV Vancouver Island),
where his 34-year career came to an end in February 2014. Mack
will be at a meet and greet beginning at noon Saturday, November 7 at
Chapters bookstore in Kamloops. Dale Bass, Kamloops This Week

09/27/15 - Kelowna fill-in news anchor and former News1130 CKWX AM Vancouver morning business news anchor Russ Byth
is back at home after spending seven months in Kelowna General Hospital
for acute pancreatitis. He also had a duodenum bypass and
gallbladder removal. Byth lost 130 pounds through the ordeal and
is looking forward to slowly returning to a regular schedule. He
has a day of work scheduled at Power104 CKLZ-FM 104.7 Kelowna October 5.

09/19/15 - Jim Pattison Broadcast Group Chairman Rick Arnish
has announced his retirement effective January 20, 2016. He has
been with the company for 28 years and was President from 1998-2012
before being appointed Chairman. The Jim Pattison Broadcast Group
operates 40 FM, 2 AM radio stations and three independent television
stations in Canada, including radio stations in Kamloops, Kelowna and
Vernon and CFJC-TV Kamloops. Rick Arnish announcement

09/03/15 - Ross Hawse, Juice CJUI-FM
103.9 Kelowna GM/GSM and Regional Cluster Manager for Vista Radio BC
South, has been released due to restructuring. He had been with
Vista Radio since 2011.

08/25/15 - Former Vancouver Island and Okanagan broadcaster Troy Scott takes over as Program Director for Virgin Radio
CKMM-FM 103.1 Winnipeg. From 2009-14, Scott held APD positions
with the Jim Pattison Broadcast Group in Kelowna and was PD for Vista
Radio stations on Vancouver Island/Sunshine Coast. Puget Sound
Radio

07/28/15 - Former Vancouver market CKNW AM 980 news anchor Tom Mark Tweets that he is filling in this week at Power 104 CKLZ-FM 104.7 Kelowna. He recently moved to Vernon and also does fill-in work at Kiss FM CKIZ-FM 107.5. Mark anchored news at CKNW from 2001-14 and has received a number of RTDNA awards.

07/27/15 - Former JRfm CJJR-FM 93.7/The Peak CKPK-FM 102.7 Vancouver news and traffic reporter Jessica Whitworth has assumed the midday position at Country 100.7 CIGV-FM Penticton. She worked at JRfm/The Peak from 2006-14.

06/28/15 - Peach City Radio has been awarded Best Music Program for CFUZ-FM Vice President Timothy Tweed’s music series Sounds from the Tenacious Hi-Fi
by the National Campus and Community Radio Association. Peach
City Radio President Dave Del Rizzo also received an honourable mention
in the Volunteer of the Year
category. CFUZ-FM was recently approved by the CRTC for a licence
to broadcast at 92.9 MHz with an ERP of 49.9 watts in Penticton and is
expected to be on air next year. Steve Arstad, InfoTel News Peach City Radio release

06/21/15 - Tara Gostelow, well known reporter for CFJC-TV Kamloops and weekend radio anchor/reporter on CIFM-FM 98.3 and B100
CKBZ-FM 100.1 has left her positions after two years and ten
months. She heads to Kelowna as a communications officer with
Interior Health.
During her time at CFJC, the BCIT Broadcast Journalism graduate filed
hundreds of stories from around the Kamloops region. CFJC-TV
news

06/21/15 - Award-winning pioneer radio and television broadcaster Glen Robitaille
died today in Kamloops at age 97. He began his career as a
transmitter operator, becoming a studio operator and announcer at CKWX
Vancouver from 1934-42 before engineering the installation of numerous
radio stations from New Brunswick to Alberta from 1945-49. He
then became Director of Engineering for CFPL in London ON in 1949 and
Technical Design Manager for the new CFPL-TV in 1952, where he stayed
until retirement in 1983. Robitaille was featured in a news item
on CFJC-TV Kamloops on April 24th commemorating his broadcast
achievements. A service is tentatively scheduled for Saturday in
Kamloops. CFJC-TV April news video

06/21/15
- Former Kamloops broadcaster Bob Merchant died at Langley Memorial
Hospital June 9 in his 69th year. He worked as an announcer at
CHNL Kamloops and in Calgary, Edmonton and Vancouver, before
moving into real estate in the Lower Mainland. A Celebration of
Life will be held at a later date. Sun/Province obituary

06/20/15 - A celebration of life is scheduled for 2 p.m. today at the Kaslo Legion Hall
in Kaslo for broadcaster Jim Yount, who died November 30 last year at
age 64. He had worked at a number of Interior and Alberta radio
stations beginning in 1964 and was a news/legislative reporter for
Vancouver market CKNW and head of the broadcast program at BCIT in the
mid-eighties. Kalso Pennywise

06/17/15
- A Celebration of Life has been announced for former CTV videographer
and Castanet News Director Trevor Rockliffe, who died June 12
following a tragic accident while working on the family car. It
is scheduled for 4 p.m. Saturday, June 20 at Springfield Funeral Home in Kelowna. Springfield obituary

06/14/15
- 54 year old former CTV videographer and Castanet News Director Trevor
Rockliffe died Friday in West Kelowna when he was crushed when a jack
gave way under a vehicle he was working on at his home. He worked
for Castanet for almost four years before leaving the company last
fall. The Daily Courier

06/01/15
- CBC Radio One has captured record audiences across Canada, with
increased listenership in key demographics according to the spring
Numeris
diary results. Data from March 6 to April 29 indicates that CBC
Radio One ranked #1 overall in seven markets, including Kelowna, Prince
George and Victoria. This is in addition to the strong numbers for PPM
markets including Toronto, Vancouver, and Edmonton, released on May
7th. Broadcaster Magazine

05/29/15 - Numeris has released its Spring 2015 Radio Diary Survey. In Kelowna CBC Radio One CBTK-FM 88.9 jumps up to first place with an 18.8 share, Country CIGV-FM 100.7 is second with 12.3 and News/Talk/Sports CKFR AM 1150 is third with 12.2.
In Kamloops it's a tight race with CBC Radio One CBYK-FM 94.1 leading
with 15.8, News/Talk CHNL AM 610 is second with 15.1 and Hit Music
CKBZ-FM 100.1 is third with 15.0. Numeris release Carmen
Weld, Castanet Kelowna Carmen Weld, Castanet Kamloops

05/21/15
- NL Broadcasting Ltd. in Kamloops has announced three new Program
Directors. T.J. Connors makes his return to BC as PD and morning
show host for Country 103 CJKC-FM 103.1. Jeff Molnar, morning show co-host on The River CKRV-FM
97.5 earns the title of PD at the station effective July 6. Howie
Reimer, long time NL personality and original morning show host at Country 103, is appointed PD and p.m. drive host on Radio NL CHNL AM 610 also effective July 6. NL release/Puget Sound Radio

05/08/15
- After 43 years at CHBC-TV Kelowna, Larry Marty has retired. He
joined the station in 1972 and spent the last 27 years in local
advertising sales.

05/05/15 - The CRTC has approved an application by Peach City Community Radio Society
(Peach City Radio) for a low-power, English-language community FM
station in Penticton. CFUZ-FM will operate at 92.9 MHz with an
effective radiated power of 49.9 watts, non-directional at -51.6 metres
effective height above average terrain at 49°29'50.0" 119°35'36.0". CRTC release Steve Arstad, InfoTel News

04/30/15
- 1.The CRTC has approved an application by Shaw Television Limited
Partnership to amend the broadcasting licence for CHBC-DT
Kelowna to add a digital transmitter to replace its existing
analog transmitter CHRP-TV-2 Revelstoke. The new transmitter
CHRP-DT-2 Revelstoke will operate on channel 9 with a maximum ERP of 80
watts with an effective height of antenna above average terrain of
1,166 metres. CRTC release

04/29/15
- Former Vancouver market CKNW AM 980 news anchor Tom Mark will be
making his Okanagan radio debut filling in this Friday as the morning
news anchor on Power 104 CKLZ-FM 104.7 Kelowna. He anchored news at CKNW from 2001-14 and has received a number of RTDNA awards.

04/24/15
- Glen Robitaille, believed to be one of Canada's oldest surviving
broadcasters, is featured on the Friday April 24th CFJC-TV Kamloops news
with reporter Tara Gostelow and produced by ENG/Editor Kent
Simmonds.
Robitaille started as a technician and announcer at 100-watt CKWX
Vancouver in 1934, but went on to build and sign on CFPL-TV in London ON
in 1953, where he stayed as Vice President Engineering until his
retirement in 1983. Robitaille won numerous broadcasting awards
during his 50-year broadcasting career. Broadcast historian Gord
Lansdell, webmaster of this site, is interviewed in the segment.
CFJC-TV video

04/10/15
- Global News has announced the production of late-night and weekend
newscasts for Kelowna and east of Alberta will be moved to Toronto,
where a single-anchor team will produce a local newscast for each
market. Local morning shows and early evening newscasts will
continue to be anchored from studios in local markets, though the
production of some national and international segments will be
centralized in Toronto. Some layoffs have occurred as a result of
the changes. Global News release

04/04/15 - CFJC-TV Kamloops reporter Tara Gostelow is researching to do a feature on Glen "Robbie" Robitaille,
now aged 97 and believed to be one of the oldest living broadcasters
in Canada. Robitaille, who lives in Kamloops, worked at CKWX
Vancouver from 1934-42 as a transmitter operator then studio operator and announcer of programs such as Behind the Mike and Make Believe Ballroom.
Gostelow is looking for audio, photos, video and any anecdotes about
him. She can be reached at tgostelow@gmail.com.

04/03/15 - Long time Prince George broadcaster Ben Meisner
died Thursday in a Winnipeg hospital at age 76. He worked on-air
in several provinces before moving to Kamloops to do a hotline radio
show at CFJC. He then moved to Prince George where he wrote a
column for the daily Citizen and hosted talk shows on CKPG and
CFIS-FM. Meisner was a recipient of the Queen’s Golden and
Diamond Jubilee medals and a Lifetime Achievement Award recipient from
the Radio, Television and Digital News Directors Association of
Canada. Mel Rothenburger, The Armchair Mayor News Dave Barry, CKPG video

04/02/15 - Former SUN FM CHSU-FM 99.9 Kelowna morning host Ian MacKinnon teams up with Chelsea Bird later this month as new morning hosts at Virgin Radio CFMG-FM 104.9 Edmonton.

03/17/15 - The British Columbia Association of Broadcasters
(BCAB) Early Bird Registration & Accommodation Deadline has been
extended to Friday, March 27, 2015. This year's conference is
being held in Penticton May 12-14 and features Vancouver broadcasters
Larry Hennessey & Willy Percy reunited again for one night as the
Masters of Ceremonies at the President's Dinner & Awards
Gala. Broadcaster Magazine

02/26/15
- Program Director/Department Head/Instructor at Columbia Academy at
VanArts A.J. Junop has been appointed Senior Creative Copywriter at
Vista Radio Ltd.
(Vista Ideas Group) in Vancouver. He was Senior Creative
Copywriter at Standard Broadcasting (99.9 Sun FM/AM1150) Kelowna from
2003-06.

12/04/14 - The River CKRV-FM 97.5 Kamloops morning show host Mike Evenson
was killed in a motor vehicle accident early this morning (December 4)
on Highway 1, five kilometres west of Chase. He was commuting to
the station in downtown Kamloops for his 6 a.m. radio show when the
three-vehicle accident occurred, involving his vehicle, a logging truck
and a tractor-trailer unit. Evenson, aged 37, had worked at NL Broadcasting for two-and-a-half years and was also assistant program director for The River. Jessica Wallace, Kamloops This Week

12/02/14 - Puget Sound Radio
reports that former Vancouver and Okanagan broadcaster Jim Yount died
Sunday evening, November 30 in Kaslo, BC. Besides broadcasting, he
was was an instructor, then program head, in the Broadcast Journalism
Program at BCIT during the mid 1980s. Brian Antonson, PSR

11/27/14
- Numeris (formerly BBM) has released its Fall 2014 Radio Diary
Survey. In Kelowna CIGV-FM 100.7 leads with a 16.7 share, CBC
Radio One CBTK-FM 88.9 is second with 16.3 and CHSU-FM 99.9 is third
with 13.6. In Kamloops CBC Radio One CBYK-FM 94.1 is first with
16.9, CHNL AM 610 is second with 16.6 and CIFM-FM 98.3 is third with
15.0. Numeris release

11/08/14 - Radio West reports that Kristen Diehl, Assistant Program Director and weekend host at AMP CKMP-FM 90.3 Calgary has been appointed PD and on-air host at Juice FM CJUI-FM 103.9 Kelowna effective December 1. Radio West posting

10/21/14 - Peach City Community Radio Society
has applied to the CRTC for a broadcasting licence to operate a
low-power, English-language community FM station in Penticton. It
would operate at 92.9 MHz with an average effective radiated power of
49.9 watts non-directional with an effective height above average
terrain of 51.6 metres. CRTC release Steve Kidd, Penticton Western News

10/14/14
- The CRTC has revoked the licence issued to Chase and District
Community Radio Society for CFCH-FM 103.5 Chase. The low power
community station ceased broadcasting on August 31. Chase
Community Radio Manager Susan Parks said the signal could not be
received widely enough within the community and it could not get enough
funding to properly support the station. CRTC decision

10/01/14 - The CRTC has denied an application by Newcap Inc. to change the authorized contours of CKKO-FM 96.3
Kelowna by relocating its transmitter to a site on top of Okanagan
Mountain. Maximum ERP would have been lowered from 31,000 to
14,100 watts but EHAAT would have increased substantially from 130.8 to
793 metres. The Commission was of the view that Newcap’s
proposal was not designed to improve service to the Kelowna area but
rather to expand CKKO-FM’s service area to include Penticton. CRTC release

09/11/14 - Account Executive Cam Carroll has retired from Global Okanagan
CHBC-TV Kelowna after 40-years. He joined the station in 1974
after four years on-air and in sales at CKWS-TV Kingston.

08/27/14 - Puget Sound Radio reports that Juice FM CJUI-FM 103.9 Kelowna PD and morning host Troy Scott will join Hot 107 CJNW-FM 107.1 Edmonton as Program Director beginning in November. He's been the PD at Juice since October of last year. PSR news

08/09/14
- Don Shafer, who was VP & GM of the Kelowna-based Standard
Broadcasting BC Interior Group from 2003-13, is now President and CEO of
Roundhouse Radio,
which this week was approved by the CRTC to start a low power,
specialty FM station in Vancouver. It will operate on 98.3
MHz. Roundhouse Radio release

08/02/14 - CHNL AM 610 Kamloops has changed its branding from News-Talk-Sports to Local First. Talk shows have gone except for The Jim Harrison Show
Tuesday and Thursday mornings and Sports Talk shows weekday
evenings. Music is "Classic Hits from the 70s, 80s and
More". CHNL schedule

07/24/14 - Puget Sound Radio reports that Heather Adams will team up with Mike Evenson for the new morning show on The River CKRV-FM 95.7 Kamloops. Evenson had been hosting p.m. drive and Adams had been working at Q103 CKQQ-FM 103.1 Kelowna. PSR news

07/10/14 - Bob Johnstone, former PD, Production Manager and morning host at The EagleCKLR-FM 97.3 Courtenay, has joined Q103 CKQQ-FM 103.1 Kelowna for The Big Breakfast with John and Susan, joining previously appointed Kelowna personality Susan Knight.

06/04/14 - Kiss FMCKIZ-FM 107.5
Vernon General Sales Manager Gord Wiens retires at the end of the month
after 30 years in broadcasting, all with the same station. He
started in 1984 as a sales representative and was promoted to GSM in
1992. He is succeeded by Andrew Laird.

05/31/14 - It's now official that former Sun FMCHSU-FM 99.9 Kelowna personality Susan Knight will begin hosting mornings beginning June 2 at Q103
CKQQ-FM 103.1 Kelowna. An announcement on the rest of the morning
team will be made later next month. Knight was on air at Sun FM from 2005-11 before moving to host p.m. drive at up!CHUP-FM 97.7 Calgary for two years.

05/31/14 - Former Sun FM CHSU-FM 99.9 Kelowna personalities Kevin Lim and Sonia Sidhu, now morning hosts at The Peak CKPK-FM 102.7 Vancouver, have been named Broadcast Performer of the Year at the 67th annual BCAB Conference in Whistler. Awards of Excellence winners

05/29/14
- BBM has released its Spring 2014 12+ Top-line Radio Statistics for
Kelowna and Kamloops for the period March 3-April 27. In Kelowna,
EZ Rock 101.5 CILK-FM leads with a 15.7 share, Sun FM CHSU-FM 99.9 is second with 14.5 and CBC Radio One CBTK-FM 88.9 is third with 13.2. In Kamloops, Radio NL CHNL AM 610 leads with 18.9, CBC Radio One CBYK-FM 94.1 is second with 16.0 and Country 103 CJKC-FM 103.1 is third with 15.7. BBM release

05/28/14 - Sun FM Mornings with Ian & Christy
debuted Monday on CJSU-FM 99.9 Kelowna. The show is hosted by Ian
MacKinnon and Christy Farrell, who worked together 10 years ago in
Edmonton. MacKinnon moves from p.m. drive at SunFM and Farrell was most recently hosting p.m. drive at Power 104 CKLZ-FM 104.7. The duo replace Kevin Lim and Sonia Sidhu, who recently moved to mornings at The Peak CKPK-FM 102.7 Vancouver.

05/23/14
- A Canadian Broadcasting Corporation spokeswoman has dismissed reports
that the public broadcaster is considering service cuts that could make
Radio 2 online-only. Watchdog group Friends of Canadian
Broadcasting
said Thursday that CBC executives will propose several major cuts,
including removing Radio 2 from the airwaves. Radio 2 programs
primarily adult contemporary, classical and jazz, and is heard locally
on 89.7 in Kelowna and 105.3 in Kamloops. CBC News Ian
Morrison, "Friends"

05/23/14 - A number of cuts were made today at Q103 CKQQ-FM 103.1 Kelowna. Gone are morning co-host Erin Chase, midday host Heather Adams, PD Andrew Murdoch andmorning news anchor Russ Byth, although he will be retained for vacation fill-in work at sister station Power 104 CKLZ-FM 104.7. The other member of the morning team, Drew Ferreira will return to middays at Power 104. Industry sources say former Sun FM CHSU-FM 99.9 morning host Susan Knight will take over a.m. drive at Q103. This is backed up by a posting on her Twitter page today, announcing she is returning to Kelowna.

05/20/14 - The CRTC has revoked the broadcasting licence issued to Bell Media Inc.
for CIOR AM 1400 Princeton. This action follows the approval by
the Commission on April 17 for the conversion of CIOR into a
rebroadcasting transmitter of CJOR AM 1240 Osoyoos. CRTC Decision

05/14/14 - Castanet is seeking $5,000 in compensation in a lawsuit against the parent company of The Juice CJUI-FM 103.9
Kelowna for alleged copyright infringement. Castanet is claiming
the station copied, largely verbatim and without credit, an original
Castanet news story from February. The court action was launched
after The Juice failed to respond to a demand for written
confirmation that it would stop copying news stories from the Castanet
website. Blaine Gaffney, Global BC

05/09/14 - Mark Burley of Sun FMCJSU-FM 99.9 Kelowna has been named Program Director of the Year: Small Market and Jeff Winskell has been named Music Director of the Year: Small Market by Canadian Music Week. Additionally, Sun FM has been named Station of the Year: Small Market.
The Canadian Music and Broadcast Industry Awards are presented to
individuals and organizations that have made a significant contribution
to the Canadian music industry in the past year. CMW award winners

05/08/14 - Broadcaster Ted Farr
celebrated 45 years in radio on May 1. He relates his story,
beginning in 1969, along with recognition of the many well-known
broadcasters he worked with during his career. Farr was a news
reader and later News Director at CKLG Vancouver during the 1970s, PD
at CKWX and CJAZ-FM Vancouver during the 1980s and most recently was
interim GM at The Juice CJUI-FM 103.9 Kelowna. He
currently is President of Ted Farr Media, VP Communications and
Broadcaster Relations at Mega Music Canada and Partner at Go Video
Productions in West Kelowna. Ted Farr Media

05/02/14 - Sue Tyler will be the new afternoon host at Power 104 CKLZ-FM 104.7 Kelowna. She begins her new gig May 26 after completing duties at The Wolf CKWF-FM 107.5 Peterborough. She replaces Christy Farrell who left in March to move to Sun FM CHSU-FM 99.9 to join the new morning show with Ian Mackinnon.

04/17/14
- Former Winnipeg Blue Bombers CEO and Corus Radio executive Garth
Buchko will assume an ownership stake and become vice-president and
general manager of the NL Broadcasting three-station group in
Kamloops. Current president and GM Robbie Dunn is stepping down
from the operational role after 32 years but will retain the title of
president. Winnipeg Free Press

04/17/14
- The CRTC has approved an application by Bell Media to convert CIOR AM
1400 Princeton into a rebroadcasting transmitter of CJOR AM 1240
Osoyoos. The rebroadcasting transmitter will continue to operate
under the technical parameters and contours authorized in its current
licence. CRTC release

04/12/14 - Only five unionized employees and four managers will lose their jobs at CBC
in British Columbia, out of 657 job cuts across Canada, which were
announced Thursday. No local shows will be cut in B.C. and no
stations will be closed. The five unionized job cuts are expected
to be in live music recording. There are 171 full-time employees
excluding managers at CBC in British Columbia, 137 of whom work in
Vancouver along with about 60 to 100 part-time contract employees at any
one time. John Mackie, Vancouver Sun

04/06/14 - RTDNA Canada,
The Association of Electronic Journalists, has announced this year's BC
Region Award recipients. The awards, announced Saturday night at
the RTDNA BC Region Awards banquet at the Executive Suites Hotel and
Conference Centre in Burnaby, honour the best programs, stations and
news gathering organizations in radio, television and digital. List of winners

04/04/14
(Updated) - It has been announced on Brian Mack's Twitter page that he
will move from evenings into the p.m. drive position at Sun FM CHSU-FM 99.9 Kelowna to replace Ian McKinnon, who moves to mornings when Kevin Lim and Sonia Sidhuhead
to Vancouver. Virgin Radio CKFM-FM 99.9 Toronto morning show
producer and airborne traffic reporter Ari Daniel will take his place.

03/27/14 - Sun FM CHSU-FM 99.9 Kelowna p.m. driver Ian MacKinnon will succeed Kevin Lim and Sonia Sidhu in mornings when the duo leaves to join The Peak CKPK-FM 102.7 Vancouver morning show in May. He will be joined by Power 104 CKLZ-FM 104.7 Kelowna host Christy Farrell, who resigned her position there last week. Broadcast Dialogue

03/18/14 - Roo Phelps, co-host of the Kelowna-based syndicated Casey Clarke Show heard on Country 100.7
CIGV-FM Penticton, is using her celebrity status to raise awareness for
epilepsy. She lost her long time friend Tese Speck in 2010, who
died from epilepsy at age 25. Phelps got involved, helping to
raise money for the Centre for Epilepsy and Seizure Education in British
Columbia. This year's Purple Day, with multiple Canadian
Country Music Association Award winner and Juno nominee, Gord Bamford
takes place at the OK Corral on March 26, with proceeds benefitting the
Centre for Epilepsy and Seizure Education. Ben Gumienny,
KelownaNow

03/08/14 - Former CKWX/CKKS-FM Vancouver PD Ted Farr, a Canadian Cancer Society
volunteer, tells about surviving throat cancer treatments in
2010. He underwent 35 radiation treatments and 3 toxic
chemotherapy cocktails and has since spoken with cancer patients from
Ontario to British Columbia. He advises patience and persistence
saying, "Fighting cancer is a process, a carefully designed plan of
attack involving all the medical tools available." Farr was more
recently GM at The Juice CJUI-FM 103.9 Kelowna and is currently president of Ted Farr Media. Advice to cancer patients

03/07/14 - Assistant news director and 34-year CFJC-TV Kamloops veteran Sandy Heimlich-Hall
left last Friday to pursue unspecified opportunities in Victoria, her
hometown. She started at the CFJC Broadcast Centre on March 17,
1980. CFJC news/video

03/04/14
- A cast of over three dozen were engaged over the past weekend at the
Shatford Centre in Penticton for the live radio stage show The Big Broadcast of 2014, produced by Peach City Radio.
Former CKOK staffer Craig Henderson wrote the story and the cast
included Bill Phillips of CHQM Vancouver fame, Dennis Walker of SO Country and former morning host at Giant FM,
along with announcer, voice over artist and commercial producer Gerry
O'Day. Retired radio personality Cal George was in the audience
for the Sunday show and retired BCIT instructor and admissions head John
Oliver also made the trip from the coast to see the show. Gerry O'Day/Bill Phillips/Dennis Walker photo

03/01/14 - Shane Loughran recently left the afternoon show at Q101 CKMQ-FM 101.1 Merritt to take over mornings at The Bridge
CHNV-FM 103.5 Nelson. He replaced Sarah Hyde, who moved back to
Vancouver to continue work as a freelance producer for CBC
Radio. Replacing Loughran in Merritt is 2012 BCIT grad Shane
Moyes, who was an intern at The Peak CKPK-FM 102.7 Vancouver.

02/14/14 - Vista Radio squeezed The Juice out of CJUI-FM 103.9 Kelowna Friday afternoon and replaced it with The New Juice. Many observers expected a bigger makeover following the removal of all references to The Juice on windows and building signs over a month ago. There is a new Juice
logo and branding as "Kelowna's Biggest Variety". Time will tell
how much the former playlist has been expanded. Launch audio
courtesy Radio West YouTube video

02/14/14 - Previously rumored, but now reported by Broadcast Dialogue, is the destination of the popular SunFM CHSU-FM 99.9 Kelowna morning team of Kevin Lim and Sonia Sidhu to mornings at The Peak CKPK-FM 102.7 Vancouver. As reported below, they will stay at Sun FM until April 25 and will likely start at The Peak in May. Meanwhile, CKFR AM1150 Kelowna PD Jeff Winskell moves to HTZ-FM CHTZ-FM 97.7 St. Catharines, ON as PD. Revolving Door, Broadcast Dialogue

02/12/14 - References to The Juice on windows and building signs were removed in early January, indicating a branding and format change for CJUI-FM 103.9
Kelowna. Now the station has uploaded a video to YouTube
announcing the change will occur at 5:15 p.m. Friday, February 14.
YouTube video

02/10/14
- A number of changes are happening at two of the three Bell Media
stations in Kelowna. It was announced today that SunFM CHSU-FM 99.9 is losing the morning team of Kevin Lim and Sonia Sidhu effective April 25. SunFM music director Jeff Winskell, who is also PD for CKFR AM1150, announced that he was leaving for Ontario. Reporters Wendy McLeod and Anita Sthankiya also recently left AM1150. Carmen Weld, Castanet

02/05/14
- The British Columbia Association of Broadcasters has announced its
67th Annual BCAB Conference will be held at the Hilton Whistler Resort
& Spa
in Whistler May 28 - 30. It is one of the leading broadcast
conferences in Canada. Awards of Excellence online submissions
will open February 17. Broadcaster Magazine

02/01/14 - Former BC Lions media director Eric Stansfield, who was involved in production of the original Sports Page on CKVU-TV Vancouver and later helped launch Team 1040 CKST AM, is now hosting his own Saturday sports talk show on AM 1150 CKFR Kelowna. Greg Douglas Short Hops, Vancouver Sun

01/29/14
- Roundhouse Radio, one of the applicants for a new low power station
to serve the Vancouver area, announced today that veteran broadcaster
Don Shafer
has been named team leader, CEO, Director and President of the Board of
Directors. He is also a shareholder. His career dates back
to the 1960s and he was PD at CKLG-FM/CFOX-FM Vancouver from 1976-85
and PD at CFMI-FM Vancouver from 1985-87. After furthering his
career in Ontario, Shafer returned west to take the position of VP
& GM of Standard Broadcasting/Astral Media's Kelowna-based BC
Interior Group from 2003-13. CRTC hearings continue this week in
Surrey. Roundhouse Radio release

01/18/14 - Rick Arnish, chairman of the Jim Pattison Broadcast Group,
celebrates his 45th anniversary on Monday, January 20. He joined
the Kamloops radio/TV cluster in 1969. When Pattison bought the
stations in 1988, Arnish was appointed GM. Later, he became
president and held that position until his promotion to chairman last
year.

01/17/14
- Patrick Nicol, one of Vernon's longest serving councillors and a
former broadcaster, died Wednesday night (01/15). He succumbed to
a long time battle with cancer at age 64. He started in 1977 as a
DJ at CJIB Vernon, now KISS-FM CKIZ-FM 107.5, before becoming
the station's general manager for 22 years. Global Okanagan
Richard Rolke, Vernon Morning Star

01/03/14 - Two format changes are in the works in Kelowna with Q103
CKQQ-FM 103.1 moving to Hot Adult Contemporary with no change to
on-air talent and a re-branding and format change upcoming for The Juice CJUI-FM 103.9, with workers removing references to The Juice on windows and building signs in the past week. Tony Peyton, KelownaNow

12/20/13 - 12/20/13
- The Jim Pattison Broadcast Group has announced a management promotion
from within the company. Stu Crouse, who has been part of the
senior management team at Island Radio
with responsibilities as the Retail Sales Manager the last 6 years,
will be the new GM and GSM of the Kelowna/Vernon division effective
January 1, 2014. He has been responsible for all sales training
for account executives of Pattison's six Vancouver Island radio
stations. Broadcaster Magazine

12/17/13
- Entrepreneur Jim Pattison has moved to the top of the list of
Canada's richest people according to the Bloomberg Billionaires
Index.
It says his private empire, which includes Save-On-Foods, car
dealerships, outdoor advertising and media is now worth $9.5
billion. The Jim Pattison Broadcast Group owns 30 FM stations and 3
TV stations in BC and Alberta, including several in Kamloops, Kelowna
and Vernon. Richard Dettman, News1130

12/14/13
- After 11-1/2 years as General Manager of the Jim Pattison Broadcast
Group in Prince George and four years prior to that as Radio Operations
Manager, Ken Kilcullen is moving to the Okanagan to become the GM of
Interior Operations for Bell Media. He makes the move at month's
end. CKPG-TV

12/11/13
- The CRTC has approved an application by the CBC to amend the
broadcasting licence for its Radio One service CBYK-FM 94.1
Kamloops in order to operate a new FM transmitter in Williams Lake to
replace the existing AM transmitter CBRL AM 860. The new
transmitter will operate at 92.1 MHz with an ERP of 275 watts
non-directional antenna with an effective height of antenna above
average terrain of -215.7 metres. CRTC decision
Additionally, the Commission has approved assignment of the transmitter
CBTO-FM 91.3 Revelstoke to CBTK-FM 88.9 Kelowna and delete it from the
broadcasting licence for CBYK-FM Kamloops. CRTC decision

12/08/13
- GSM Peter Angle of Bell Media’s Kelowna radio cluster adds duties as
regional sales manager for all Bell radio stations in the B.C. Interior
group. Also at the Bell Kelowna cluster, Bruce Irving has been
promoted from account manager to retail sales manager. Revolving
Door, Broadcast Dialogue

11/29/13 - Country 100.7 CIGV-FM
Penticton has moved into first place in the Kelowna Fall 2013 Regional
Diary 12 BBM ratings with a 13.7 share, edging out perennial
favourite Sun FM CHSU-FM 99.9 which has 13.6. However SunFM maintained their firm hold on the key advertising demographic of those aged 25-54. Ben Gumienny, KelownaNow

11/28/13
- Radio West has published Fall 2013 Regional Diary 12 BBM ratings for
Kelowna, Kamloops, Penticton and Vernon. Radio West info

11/21/13 - Don Shafer,
former Kelowna-based VP/GM of the Standard, Astral then Bell Media
radio and TV stations in the B.C. interior, has been named interim GM
at CFQX-FM 104.1 and CHIQ-FM 94.3 Winnipeg. The Jim Pattison Broadcast Group
has purchased the stations, which were being held in trust as a result
of the BCE purchase of Astral, but await CRTC approval. Shafer
was a PD in Vancouver from 1976-87. He is also currently managing
partner at Hamilton Media Group.

11/15/13
- Broadcast Dialogue reports that after 52 years in radio, Terry Timms
will retire at year’s end. Timms, now in ad sales with EZ Rock CKXR-FM 91.5
Salmon Arm, worked as the operations manager/production manager at CHQM
Vancouver and was with CFMS Victoria before joining EZ Rock, then
under Standard Radio ownership.

11/01/13
- Former Vernon city councillor and CRTC commissioner Rosalie Gower
died October 13 at age 82. She was also a nurse at Vernon Jubilee
Hospital during the 1960s. Vernon Morning Star Thompson Funeral Service obituary

10/05/13 - Bruce Davis, GM/GSM of the Jim Pattison Broadcast Group
stations in Kelowna and VP sales for the entire group, has
retired. He has been with the Pattison Group for 14 years and has a
career total of 45 years.

10/01/13 - Troy Scott has returned to Kelowna as PD/morning host at The Juice
CJUI-FM 103.9 and continues as music programmer at Kroeger Media
Inc. He was most recently format and program director at Vista
Radio Ltd.'s Vancouver Island stations. He is joined in a.m. drive
by Sun FM CJSU-FM 89.7 Duncan news director Liz Craig.

09/13/13 - Former News1130 CKWX AM Vancouver morning business editor Russ Byth has accepted the position of full time morning news anchor at Q103.1 CKQQ-FM Kelowna. He was with News1130
from 1996-2010 before taking news writing positions with Global BC and
Global National based in Vancouver in 2011 and '12. He
subsequently moved to Kelowna and was filling in at Q103 before taking the position full time.

09/11/13
- After a forty year run, CHBC-TV Kelowna weather anchor Mike Roberts
presented his final forecast last Friday as he heads into
retirement. He came to Global Okanagan from CHEK-TV
Victoria in 1973 and since then has filled his days producing hundreds
of stories on the people of the Okanagan. During his career he
has received the Queen’s Diamond and Golden Jubilee Medal, the Governor
General’s Caring Canadian Award, the B.C. Association of Broadcasters
Performer of the Year Award, along with a number of others. Doris
Bregolisse, Global News Global Okanagan backgrounder

09/03/13 - A celebration of life has been announced for former Vancouver talk show host and most recently Q103.1 CKQQ-FM
Kelowna news reporter/anchor Kim Calloway, who died August 22 in
Kelowna at age 69. It will be held from 5 - 7 p.m. Friday,
September 6 at the Kelowna Community Theatre, 1375 Water Street.
Bob Mills will emcee, with presentations by Sharon Shepherd and Jasmin
Doobay.

08/28/13 - Gord Leighton adds to his GM/GSM responsibilities at Sunfm CICF-FM 105.7 Vernon, replacing Ron Langridge, a 32- year broadcast veteran who’s been the GM/GSM at EZ Rock CKXR-FM 91.5
Salmon Arm/CKCR-FM Revelstoke/CKGR Golden for the last 12 years under
the ownership of Okanagan Skeena, Telemedia, Standard Radio, Astral and
most recently Bell Media.

08/25/13
- Kelowna Mayor Walter Gray, who once owned a number of Okanagan radio
stations, reacts when a blogger he was interviewing about women's
rights, removed her top during the interview. Gray started his
broadcasting career at CKOV in Kelowna in 1957 and went on to manage or
own several stations in the Okanagan and Kootenays. He sold his
interests in the stations in 1996.

08/22/13 - 08/22/13 - Former Vancouver broadcaster and most recently Q103.1 CKQQ-FM
Kelowna news reporter and anchor Kim Calloway died today at Kelowna
General Hospital after a short battle with a very aggressive lung and
liver cancer. He was 69. Calloway announced just last week
that he was going onto full time disability due to health
concerns. Alistair Waters, Kelowna Capital News

08/15/13 - The CRTC has accepted applications by CBC to delete Radio One CBYK-FM 94.1 Kamloops rebroadcasters CBUL Lillooet and CBUH Chase and to delete Radio One CBTK-FM 88.9 Kelowna rebroadcasters CBRD Field and CBXW Edgewood. CRTC decision

08/14/13 - Former AM1150 CKFR host and SunFM CHSU-FM 99.9
Kelowna music director Darren Mitchell Robertson has pleaded guilty to
possession of child pornography and has been sentenced to nine months
in jail. He left Kelowna in 2011 and most recently worked at CHQR AM 770 Calgary. News1130

08/13/13 - Q103.1 CKQQ-FM
Kelowna news reporter and anchor Kim Calloway has announced, "After
50-plus years as a full-time radio news reporter here in BC and
Ontario, I am done. Health concerns are putting me on full-time
disability." Before moving to Kelowna in 1993, he hosted the Kim Calloway Talk Show on CKWX AM 1130 Vancouver in the 1970s & '80s. He was a co-recipient of the Jack Webster Award in 2004 for Best Reporting of the Year for the 2003 Kelowna Firestorm.

08/07/13
- Don Shafer, former Vancouver broadcaster and currently BC Interior VP
& regional manager at Bell Media is stepping down at the end of
August. He has held the position since 2003 when it was Astral
Media and most recently was managing 22 radio stations and two
television stations. The CRTC gave approval
to the acquisition of Astral by Bell on June 27. Shafer was PD at
CKLG-FM/CFOX-FM Vancouver from 1976-85 and PD at CFMI-FM from 1985-87
before moving to positions in Toronto and then to Kelowna in 2003.

07/12/13 - The CRTC has denied an application by Newcap Inc. to change the authorized contours of CKKO-FM 96.3
Kelowna. Newcap applied to relocate the transmitter to a
site on top of Okanagan Mountain, decrease the maximum ERP from 31,000
to 14,100 watts and increase the effective height of the antenna above
average terrain from 130.8 to 793 metres. It stated that the
changes would provide Newcap with access to both the Kelowna and
Penticton markets. CRTC decision

07/02/13
- In a CBC online poll asking which morning show Revelstoke residents
want to receive, 68 per cent of the 449 polled preferred Kelowna over
Kamloops. CBC will now ask the CRTC to allow it to switch the
Revelstoke transmitter back to the Kelowna feed. The feed was
switched last fall when CBC opened its new Kamloops bureau. Aaron Orlando, Revelstoke Times Review

07/01/13 - Founder Jim Ripley has announced a
new low-power radio station oriented directly toward tourists should
begin broadcasting in Kelowna within a couple of weeks. It will
operate at 95.3 MHzwithcontent
of specific interest to tourists, with items about local events and
attractions, and general information about Kelowna. Regulations
prohibit paid ads on the station and limits it to a maximum output of 50
watts. A similar low-power station was launched by Ripley last
year in Peachland.Tourist Radio

05/16/13
- An online poll continues until the end of this week to gauge the
radio preferences of Revelstoke listeners in order to help the
broadcaster decide whether CBC Radio Kamloops or CBC Radio Kelowna is
fed on its Revelstoke transmitter. Last fall CBC Radio opened a
new bureau in Kamloops and switched the Revelstoke feed away from its
previous Kelowna source. A controversy has been brewing since the
switch. Revelstoke residents can vote at the CBC Kamloops website. Aaron Orlando, Revelstoke Times Review

06/03/13 - Global BC Vancouver meteorologist Wesla Wong anchored her last weather report Sunday with the announcement that she is moving to the Okanagan. She will be filling in on a casual basis forGlobal Okanagan CHBC-TV Kelowna weatherman Mike Roberts.

05/30/13 - The controversy continues over which CBC Radio feed
is carried into Revelstoke, six months after it was switched from the
Kelowna bureau to the newer Kamloops one. Aaron Orlando,
Revelstoke Times Review

05/17/13 - Kamloops-based Jim Pattison Broadcast Group has announced the acquisition of three FM stations located in Calgary and Winnipeg, two from Bell Media and one from Astral. The transaction is subject to approval from the CRTCand contingent on Commission approval of the pending Astral-Bell Media transaction. Pattison release

05/09/13 - The CRTC has approved
applications by Shaw Television to add digital transmitters to replace
existing analog transmitters for CHKM-TV Kamloops and CIFG-TV Prince
George. Kamloops will operate on channel 22 with a maximum ERP of
30,000 watts at 150 metres EHAAT and Prince George will operate on
channel 29 with a maximum ERP of 30,000 watts at 482 metres EHAAT. Both transmitters will rebroadcast the programming of CHAN-DT (Global BC) Vancouver. CRTC decision

05/04/13 - Staff
breathed a sigh of relief as they received an email from Rob Steele,
president and CEO at Halifax-based Newcap Radio, announcing that plans
for the sale of the company’s western assets have been terminated. He
said the process reaffirmed the value of the western stations to the
company, and further stated that Newcap plans to be in the radio
business in Alberta and BC for quite some time. Newcap owns K96.3 CKKO-FM Kelowna and Country 100.7 CIGV-FM Penticton.

04/26/13 - AM1150 CKFR Kelowna news anchor/reporter
Wendy McLeod has been pulled off the air for conflict of interest after
managers found out she was volunteering as a communications person for
Kelowna–Lake Country Liberal candidate, Norm Letnick. CBC News

04/25/13 - According to a posting on her Twitter page this morning, Vista Radio CEO Margot Micallef has stepped down. Vista operates 38 radio licenses on Vancouver Island, the B.C. Interior, Alberta and the Northwest Territories, and recently acquired 24 new properties in Ontario. Micallef is also founder and president of private equity investment and advisory firm Oliver Capital Partners Inc. She is also the recipient ofCanadian Women in Communications Woman of the Year award for 2013.

04/06/13 - RTDNA Canada has announced its BC Regional Award recipients. CJFC-TV Kamloops has won a Bert Cannings small market TV award for CJFC TV Evening News - July 5, 2012 and CKBZ-FM 100.1 Kamloops has won a Byron MacGregor small market best radio newscast award for B-100 Noon News - April 19, 2012. RTDNA Canada release

04/01/13
- Early bird registration for this year's British Columbia Association
of Broadcasters 66th Annual Conference, to be held in Penticton May 7-9,
has been extendedto Friday, April 5. Keynote speaker is Lloyd Robertson, host and chief correspondent for CTV’s investigative news series, W5.

02/25/13 - Brad Smart, morning host at B 93.3 CJBZ-FM Lethbridge has announced on his Twitter page that he is moving to host p.m. drive at Q103.1 CKQQ-FM Kelowna. Both stations are owned by the Jim Pattison Broadcast Group

02/18/13 - Bob Crouse, the voice of news, sports, and weather for CKXR Salmon Arm and the Big R network for over 30 years died February 7 after a two year battle with cancer. He was 63. There will be no service at his request. Bowers Funeral Service obituary

02/04/13
- Retired CBC Radio host Neil Gillon and his wife Lynn were among
seven victims of an attack by a man wielding a knife and possibly a
hammer in downtown Vancouver Thursday night. Gillon had been with CBC Radio in Prince Rupert, Kelowna and Vancouver. He also reported news for CKIQ Kelowna, now AM1150 CKFR, in the late 1970s. Rod Mickleburgh, The Globe and Mail

01/31/13 - The CRTC has approved an application by Vista Radio Ltd. to increase the maximum ERP for CJUI-FM 103.9 Kelowna from 10,000 to 36,800 watts, decrease the effective height of antenna above average terrain from 506 to -90 metres and relocate the transmitter site. Vistaindicated that it requested the changes in order to improve coverage in the West Kelowna area. CRTC decision

01/25/13 - Jason Mann, VP programming for Vista Radio reports three current Juice CJUI-FM 103.9 Kelowna sales team members will be leaving over the next several weeks as the station transitions
client lists and
responsibilities. Puget
Sound Radio

11/30/12
- Castanet
reports fall 2012 radio ratings for
Okanagan cities. Sun FM CHSU-FM
99.9 holds first place in Kelowna
with a 16.2 share. Wayne Moore,
Castanet Sun FM CJMG-FM
97.1 is first in Penticton with a
24.5 share. Kiss-FM CKIZ-FM
107.5 is number one in Vernon with a
27.5 share.

11/21/12 - Casey Clarke, known for his work on CMT, joinsCountry 100.7 CIGV-FM Penticton as morning host. The show debuts in the New Year andwill be called The Casey Clarke Show with Roo Phelps.
He will continue his nationally
syndicated shows with CMT through Casey
Clarke Productions from his new
base in the Okanagan.

11/19/12 -
Revelstoke council is writing to the
CRTC to have its local CBC signal switched back to being
fed from Kelowna rather than
Kamloops following a flood of emails from listeners. The feed
was switched when the CBC
opened its Kamloops bureau
and station in early
October. The
Revelstoke Current

11/13/12 - Long time The River CKRV-FM 97.5 Kamloops morning host JT James Taylor starts a new gig as midday host at Capital FM CKRA-FM 96.3 Edmonton. He's been at The River since 2005.

11/03/12 - The Jim Pattison Broadcast
Group has announced the appointment
of Cheryl Blackwell to the position
of PD for CIFM-FM 98.3andB-100 CKBZ-FM 100.1 Kamloops. She continues to co-host a.m. drive on B-100. Broadcaster Magazine

10/31/12 - Senior director, Global National and Global Vancouver station manager
Kenton Boston has been promoted to VP,
BC and National News. He continues to be responsible for all national and foreign news operations, including Global Okanagan
CHBC-TV Kelowna. Broadcast
Dialogue Revolving Door p. 2 of 7

10/17/12
- Troy
Scott has been named program director at SunFM
CJSU-FM 89.7 Duncan. He was most
recently morning co-host at Country 100.7
CIGV-FM
Penticton and previously was assistant
PD/MD and drive host at the Jim
Pattison Broadcast Group's Kelowna
cluster.

10/09/12 - Daybreak Kamloops with host Shelley Joyce debuted this morning on CBC Radio OneCBYK-FM 94.1Kamloops. The show takes over from the Kelowna-based Daybreak South
for listeners in the region of
Thompson-Nicola, parts of the Fraser
Valley, southern Cariboo, and
Revelstoke. An
open house at 218 Victoria St.
continues until 2 p.m. today. CBC News

09/10/12
- Shelley
Joyce has been named host of CBC
Kamloops new morning show Daybreak Kamloops. The program debuts at 6 a.m. October 9 on Radio One
CBYK-FM 94.1 Kamloops. CBC
News Jason
Hewlett, Kamloops Daily News

09/07/12
- An official announcement is expected
after 7 a.m. Monday on when the CBC
Kamloops bureau will launch and who will
host the CBYK-FM 94.1 morning
show. The four-person bureau
located at 218 Victoria St. includes two
former CFJC-TV personalities, anchor Rob
Polson and reporter Doug Herbert. Jason
Hewlett, Kamloops Daily News

09/04/12
- The family is planning a private
memorial in Kelowna later this week for
Rhythm Pals lead singer Jack
Jensen, who died Friday August 31 in
Kelowna. The trio got their start
with Bill Rea at CKNW New Westminster in
the mid 1940s and moved to CKWX
Vancouver in the early 50s. They
later toured the U.S., Europe and Asia,
and worked in Hollywood before returning
to Canada, where they had their own
radio show on CBC. The Rhythm Pals
won awards for Canada's best country
group in 1965, '67 and '68, and were
inducted into the Canadian Country Music
Hall of Honour in 1989.

08/30/12 - After less than four months as PD/morning co-host at Okanagan CountryCIGV-FM 100.7
Penticton, Troy
Scott was released from the
station on Tuesday. Morning co-host
Roo Phelps
continues solo. Scott is a music
programmer for the HANK-FM format at
Kroeger Media.

08/21/12
- The CRTC has approved an application
by Voice
of the Shuswap Broadcast Society
for a low-power community FM station in
Salmon Arm. The new station will
operate at 93.7 MHz with an ERP of 15
watts non-directional at 556.6 metres
HAAT. It is to broadcast 98 hours
of programming each week, of which 62
hours would be station-produced, with
the remaining programming obtained from
other campus and community stations
across Canada and from the CBC. CRTC approval

07/27/12 - Former K96.3 CKKO-FM
Kelowna morning host Kevin McGowan died
suddenly in Toronto August 8. He
was 58. He had worked in Winnipeg
and at several stations in Ontario and
had co-hosted the morning show at K96.3 Kelowna when it signed on in 2008. All Access Music Group

07/27/12
- The CRTC has approved an application
by Shaw Television to amend the
broadcasting licence for the
conventional television programming
undertaking CHBC-TV
Kelowna and its transmitters CHBC-TV-1
Penticton and CHBC-TV-2 Vernon in order
to add post transitional digital
transmitters to replace its existing
analog transmitters. CRTC release

07/27/12 - The
CRTC has approved an application by Shaw
Television to amend the broadcasting
licence for the conventional television
programming undertaking CHAN-DT
Vancouver in order to add post
transitional digital transmitters to
replace its existing analog transmitters
CHKL-TV-1 Penticton and CHKL-TV-2
Vernon. CRTC release

07/18/12
- The CRTC has approved an application
by CBC to shut down all its analog
translators July 31 for its 23 English
and French language television stations
in Canada. Included are numerous
translators serving smaller communities
on Vancouver Island, the Fraser Valley
and BC Interior broadcasting the
programming of CBUT and CBUFT
Vancouver. CRTC decision and transmitter list

07/07/12
- CBC
will shut down the last of its analog
television transmitters by July
31. A long list of transmitters in
BC will go dark, including several in
the Okanagan. The Corporation says
the move will save $10 million a year
which it will be put into programming. CBC
Release Transmitter
List Coverage Map

07/06/12 - TJ Connors will co-host a.m. drive with Christy Farrell On The Juice CJUI-FM 103.9 Kelowna following
the departure of Gary Long to GM/PD of
Vista’s Cariboo Group and Justin “Drex”
Wilcomes to group PD/morning host on
Vancouver Island. TJ will also handle the role of program director.

06/30/12
- From modest beginnings as a trumpet
player, through auto dealerships,
supermarkets, illuminated signs, the
chairman of Expo 86, amusement parks,
Ripley’s Believe It or Not! and a
broadcast empire, Jim
Pattison
has become Canada's third richest man,
with an estimated personal wealth of $5.8
billion. The Jim Pattison
Broadcast Group owns 29 FM stations and
three television stations in British Columbia and Alberta. Brian Hutchinson, National Post

06/28/12 - Former Victoria broadcaster Gerald Pash
has been appointed as Citizenship Judge
in British Columbia, Citizenship,
Immigration and Multiculturalism.
Following a 27-year career in radio in
the Okanagan, Fraser Valley and Victoria,
he worked for the Department of National
Defence for 22 years as a public affairs
officer at the Maritime Forces Pacific
Headquarters in Victoria. News release

06/12/12 - Radio NL CHNL AM 610 Kamloops and the WHL Kamloops Blazers
have signed a new agreement for
broadcasting rights through the 2014-15
season. It will mark the 29th
consecutive year of Blazers games on Radio NL.

06/07/12
- Los
Angeles Lakers star, Metta World Peace
made a surprise appearance on Wednesday
night's CTV British Columbia
newscast as an "NBA weather specialist",
with a number of quips and new
pronunciations of B.C. cities.
Vancouver Sun CTV/YouTube
video

06/06/12 - The Community Radio Fund of Canada
has announced its latest round of
funding for campus and community radio
stations. Included is $6,509 for the Youth Internship Program at CFBX-FM 92.5 Kamloops. Broadcaster Magazine

05/25/12
- BBM has released the Spring 2012
ratings for Kelowna, with Sun FM
CHSU-FM 99.9
showing a commanding lead.

05/09/12 - The new Country 100.7, CIGV-FM 100.7 Penticton debuts ‘Okanagan
Mornings with Troy and Roo’ Monday
morning May 14. Troy
Scott,
known for his work at CMT and Jim
Pattison Broadcast Group's Kelowna
stations, hosts with Roo Phelps, who
has been on air evenings at JRfm CJJR-FM 97.3 Vancouver since 2007.

05/03/12
- Rogers
Media has signed a long term agreement
with the Jim Pattison Broadcast Group
that will see 90% of Citytv
CKVU-TV
Vancouver programming air throughout
prime time and the majority of the
morning and daytime hours on Pattison's
three TV stations in Western
Canada. The agreement is effective
September 1 and includes CFJC-TV
Kamloops, CKPG-TV Prince George and
CHAT-TV Medicine Hat, AB.
Broadcaster Magazine

05/03/12 - Rick Arnish, President of the Jim Pattison Broadcast Group
is being promoted to Group Chairman
effective July 1st. Rod Schween
will take over his position. Pattison release

05/02/12
- NL Broadcasting has announced that
Mike Evenson, formerly of The Q CKKQ-FM 100.3 Victoria, is the new p.m. drive host on The River CKRV-FM 97.5
Kamloops and Dennon Stein from SAIT in
Calgary is the new swing announced for The River and sister station Radio NL CHNL AM 610.

05/02/12
- James Peters has been selected as the
recipient of the 2012 RTDNA Canada
President's Fellowship. The
Fellowship of up to $3,000 is offered to
a working electronic journalist annually
to attend a seminar at the Poynter
Institute in St. Petersburg,
Florida. Peters is a
reporter/anchor at the Jim Pattison
Broadcast Group radio and TV cluster in Kamloops. RTDNA release

05/02/12 - JACK FM CHTT-FM 103.1
Victoria has severed ties with morning
host Tarzan Dan Freeman, who was hosting
the show from Rogers' Vancouver studios
after being displaced from CFUN-FM 104.9
when it changed format last
August. Tarzan hosted a.m. drive at
SUN FM CHSU-FM 99.9 Kelowna from 2005-11. Puget Sound Radio

04/28/12 - Morning host and 20-year Giant FM CIGV-FM 100.7
veteran Dennis Walker, along with three
other announcers, were let go Friday, as
the station repositioned itself as Country 100.7. MyNaramata
The CRTC approved the purchase of CIGV
by Newfoundland Capital Corporation
(Newcap) in February. Wayne Moore, Castanet

04/26/12
- Former Kamloops and Vancouver
broadcaster Walter Jones died March 22
in Langley. He was 75. His
career included 15 years as a radio
broadcaster with CFJC Kamloops and CKWX
and CJVB Vancouver, and 27 years in
sales, including a short time in radio
sales at Vancouver market CISL in 1984
and '85. No service is
scheduled. Sun/Province obituary

04/03/12 - TV reporters Eric Szeto (CHBC/Global Okanagan) and Bhinder Sajan (CTV British Columbia)are among four journalists named as recipients of
the 2012 Jack Webster Foundation
Professional Development Fellowships.
Webster Foundation release

03/30/12 - The CRTC has approved an application by CBC
to replace the Corporation's existing
transmitter CBYK-FM Kamloops, using its
current technical parameters, operating
at 94.1 MHz with an ERP of 4,750 watts
non-directional at 124 metres HAAT, with
a new Enclish language station. It
would provide, during each broadcast
week, a minimum of 12 hours and 30
minutes of local programming originating
in Kamloops. The Commission also
approved an amendment to the licence for
CBTK-FM Kelowna by changing a number of
translators to rebroadcast CBYK-FM
Kamloops. CRTC decision/

03/28/12
- Longtime CFJC Kamloops employee
and former City councillor Gordon Rye
died Saturday due to natural
causes. He was 90. A private
celebration of his life was held
Tuesday. He was still working in
radio when he was elected a city alderman
in the early 1980s. Mike Youds, Kamloops Daily News

03/23/12 - Canadian Music Week has named Sunfm CHSU-FM 99.9 Kelowna broadcasters Dustin Collins Music Director of the Year - Small Market and Mark Burley Program Director of the Year - Small Market. CMW release

02/23/12 - Sun FM CICF-FM 105,7
Vernon morning show co-host and news
anchor Betty Selin is one of eight
recipients of the 2012 RTDNA Lifetime
Achievement Awards. She has
received a number of awards since she
began her career in broadcast journalism
in 1979. RTDNA release

02/20/12
- The CRTC has approved an application
by Newcap Inc. to acquire CKKO-FM 96.3
Kelowna from Sun Country Radio
Ltd. The price of the transaction
after adjustments is listed as
$5,329,147. CRTC decision

01/23/12 - Long-time CHNL AM 610 Kamloops Morning Mayor
Peter Olsen has taken a few weeks off
for prostate cancer treatment, but plans
to be back on air by March. Radio NL info

01/19/12
- Former Merritt and Castlegar radio
personality Jamie Trevor McDerment is
expected to return to court in Kamloops
for sentencing Friday afternoon after
pleading guilty to a string of charges
involving child pornography and
voyeurism.

12/15/11 - Q101 CKMQ-FM 101.1
Merritt PD and morning host Brian Wiebe has left the station to take
up positions as Assistant Instructor for the Radio Program and
Operations Manager of Evolution CFML-FM 107.9 at BC Institute of Technology in Burnaby. His last day at Q101 was Friday, December 9. Robin Poon, Merritt News

12/14/11
- Marion Bews, former corporate secretary to the Browne family at CKOV
Kelowna, died December 8 at age 93. She served with the station from
1943 until retirment in the late 1970s. A Memorial Service to be held
Saturday, January 21 at 1:00 pm at Springfield Funeral home, 2020
Springfield Road, Kelowna. Castanet obituary

12/03/11 - Sun FM CHSU-FM 99.9 leads the latest BBM ratings in Kelowna with a 22.3 share, EZ Rock CILK-FM 101.5 is second with 21.6 and Power 104 CKLZ-FM 104.7 is third with 16.8. Grant Scott, Castanet

11/25/11 - Kamloops council has voted 7-1 in
favour of writing a letter to the CRTC in support of CBC’s application
to provide a local morning show and news coverage in the city. Jeremy Deutsch, Kamloops This Week

11/13/11
- Don Shafer, Kelowna-based vice-president and regional manager for
Astral Media says the recent shut-down of the newsroomat Sun FM CICF-FM 105.7
Vernon is an unfortunate change reflecting the times. He says there
will still be a morning news run using existing Vernon announcers.
News director Betty Selin and reporter Kate Bouey were displaced by the
change. Vernon Morning Star

11/09/11
- Puget Sound Radio reports that three veteran broadcast journalists
and six others have been released from news postions by Astral Media in
the BC Interior. Puget Sound Radio

10/31/11 - CFJC-TV Kamloops video journalist Andrew Hopkins has been hired as a new evening/weekend reporter at News1130 CKWX AM
Vancouver. He's a 2005 BCIT Broadcast Journalism program graduate,
has worked in radio in Williams Lake, Kamloops and Fort St. John and is
a 2009 Jack Webster Foundation Fellowship Award recipient.

10/27/11 - Another addition to The Juice CJUI-FM 103.9 Kelowna, as Gary Long moves from his position as PD at 94X CIRX-FM 94.3 Prince George to assume the duties of morning anchor, music director and assistant program director.

10/26/11
- The CRTC has approved an application by CBC to add a new FM
transmitter in Lillooet to rebroadcast the programming of CBTK-FM 88.9
Kelowna. It will operate at 92.7 MHz with an ERP of 90 watts
non-directional at -816.5 metres HAAT, and will replace the current AM
rebroadcast transmitter. CRTC decision

10/24/11
- Montreal and Calgary broadcaster Steve Shannon has submitted an
application to the CRTC for a new community station in Barriere. If
approved, he hopes to be up and running by next summer. Jill Hayward - Barriere Star Journal

10/20/11 - Vancouver native Erin Chase starts next month as evening host and marketing director at The Juice CJUI-FM 103.9 Kelowna. She was most recently part of the morning team at Jack CJAQ-FM 96.9 Calgary.

08/28/11 - Kiss-FM CKIZ-FM 107.5
Vernon relaunched on the B.C. Day long weekend as Vernon's best music
featurning "the best of the best from the ‘60s to today". bclocalnews.com

08/09/11
- Former Australian radio host/programmer and PD of The Bridge CHNV-FM
103.5 Nelson, Drex Justin Wilcomes becomes the new PD at The Juice
CJUI-FM 103.9 Kelowna.

08/06/11 - Kelly Moore is leaving Country 103
CJKC-FM 103.1 Kamloops and returning to CJOB AM 680 Winnipeg in
charge of pre-game and post-game coverage for the NHL Jets. The Daily
News

08/04/11
- Newcap Radio has announced that it has deals to purchase CKKO-FM
96.3 Kelowna and CIGV-FM 100.7 Penticton for $7 million. Both sales
are subject to CRTC approval. Digital Journal

07/08/11 - Former SILK FM
owner Nick Frost's Castanet is billing $3 million annually.
Castanet was developed in November 2000 as Kelowna’s home page. Sean
Luce, Radio Ink

07/06/11 - The hour-long CHBC News @ 5 will return Monday, July 11 on CHBC-TV.
Also returning is the station's live news reporting capability from
Vernon, Kelowna and Penticton. Shaw Cable adds the signal in HD
beginning today. Broadcaster Magazine

05/26/11 - CBC has announced the first details of an initiative with an increased local focus. All-new
radio and online services will be established in Kamloops, and CBC
Kelowna will expand its current service to include a new afternoon radio
program focused on serving the B.C. interior. New programming will
begin this fall. Broadcaster Magazine Kamloops Daily News

04/20/11
- Former CKWX Vancouver PD and CJUI-FM 103.9 Kelowna GM Ted Farr, now a
radio consultant living in Kelowna, says he was shocked to hear he was
being inducted into the B.C. Country Music Association Hall of Fame.
The induction show will be held at the Red Robinson Show Theatre in
Coquitlam on April 23. Chris Stanford, Kelowna Courier

03/14/11 - The 29th Annual Canadian Music & Broadcast Industry Awards have been presented, with Sunfm CHSU-FM 99.9 Kelowna winning Station of the Year - Small Market and Mark Burley at Sunfm winning Program Director of the Year - Small Market. CMW details

03/09/11
- Former Vancouver and Kelowna broadcaster Ted Farr is one of ten
inductees into the British Columbia Country Music Association
Hall of Fame. He was news director at CKLG then program director at
CKWX Vancouver during its country music format days in the 1980s. He
also served as GM at The Juice CJUI-FM 103.9 Kelowna last year,
and is currently president of Ted Farr Media. The induction show
will be held at the Red Robinson Show Theatre in Coquitlam on April 23.

02/01/11
- Registration has opened for the 64th Annual British Columbia
Association of Broadcasters Conference scheduled for May 4 - 6 at the
Delta Grand Okanagan Resort and Convention Centre in Kelowna. BCAB
info

01/20/11 - Prof. Anne MacLennan of the Remembering Radio Project
is conducting a national study on Canadian radio during the 1930s.
Her research group is currently looking for people 78 years and older
who lived in B.C. during the 1930s to conduct phone interviews (usually
15 to 30 minutes) about their memories of early radio. Further information

01/20/11 - Airchecker reports that Tarzan Dan Freeman will be the new afternoon drive host at fun FM CFUN-FM 104.9 Vancouver beginning in late March. He is currently hosting mornings at Sunfm CHSU-FM 99.9 Kelowna, and worked the Vancouver market at CKXY AM 1040 from 1988-90.

01/19/11 - Tarzan Dan Freeman has announced that he is leaving his morning slot at Sun FM CHSU-FM 99.9
Kelowna and moving to a major market station. An announcement
regarding where and when will be released shortly. He's been at Sun FM since 2005.

2/29/10 - BC broadcast icon Bill Hughes, renowned for his 15,000+ Roving Mike
episodes from 1950-94 on Vancouver market CKNW, has made
a significant contribution to the fundraising campaign for the Centre
of Excellence in Sustainable Building Technologies
in Penticton. The $28-million facility will provide space
for 820 students after it is completed in March,
2011.

12/14/10 - Silk CILK-FM 101.5 Kelowna moved to all-Christmas music on Sunday evening (12/12) with Brenda Lee's Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree

12/05/10 - Astral Media
stations placed first, second and third in the latest Kelowna radio
ratings, with all three pulling double digit
shares. Castanet

11/24/10 - CHOR AM 1450 Summerland is now broadcasting on FM as EZ Rock 98.5. The CRTC authorized the move on June 17, 2010 and allows simulcast programming on AM for three months.

11/04/10 - After a long career, morning host John Michaels is reportedly retiring from The Juice CJUI-FM 103.9 Kelowna, with co-host Liz McKinney moving to afternoon drive.

10/28/10 - Castanet, an offshoot of Silk FM
CILK-FM 101.5 Kelowna, has become the first independent
online news site to become a member of the B.C. Press Council.
The Press Council decided at an October 8 board meeting
that membership would be extended to independent online
news sites.

10/22/10
- The CRTC has approved the acquisition of TV assets of
CanWest Global Communications Corp. by Shaw
Communications Inc. The deal gives Shaw ownership
over the Global television network, which includes CHBC-TV/2
Kelowna, and a host of specialty channels. The
Commission accepted Shaw's proposal to spend $180.1 million over the
next seven years to support the transition to digital
television by converting 67 analog transmitters in
smaller markets to digital, provide and install a satellite receiver and
dish, at no charge, to viewers who lose access to
over-the-air signals of their local or regional
television stations as of August 31, 2011, as well as free satellite
access to those signals, along with a number of other
concessions. CRTC decision

09/28/10 - Ian MacKinnon from KOOL FM CKCE-FM 101.5 Calgary joins Sun FM CHSU-FM 99.9 Kelowna for evenings and weekends. He has also worked on air in Camrose and Edmonton.

09/20/10
- Former CHIM-FM and CILK-FM Kelowna announcer and
program director Douglas Johnston died yesterday following a heart
attack. Born in 1949, he was a long time air
personality at The Jewel CJWL-FM 98.5 Ottawa. The Jewel obituary

06/17/10 - The CRTC has approved an application by Astral Media to convert CHOR AM 1450
Summerland to the FM band. It is to operate at
98.5 MHz directional with a maximum ERP of 100 watts at 348 meters HAAT
at 49-39-34 119-34-22.
It will offer a mainstream Adult Contemporary
format targeting adults aged 18 to 54. CRTC decision

06/08/10 - Phil Johnson's The Early Edition on AM 1150 (CKFR)
Kelowna pulls down top numbers among morning radio shows
in the Okanagan city. Wayne Moore, Castanet

06/07/10 - RTNDA Canada,
The Association of Electronic Journalists has announced its awards for
the best in electronic journalism in the B.C. region for
2009. Broadcaster Magazine

05/14/10
- A video of the presentations at the BCAB 63rd Annual
Conference held in Victoria May 5-7 can be viewed at
YouTube. The 2011 Conference is scheduled for
Kelowna on May 11-13.

05/04/10 - Ken Allen joonyer left his p.m. drive slot at The Juice
CJUI-FM 103.9 Kelowna last week and has returned to his
old club DJ position at The Roxy in Vancouver.

04/27/10
- CIFM-FM 98.3 Kamloops p.m. drive host Leo Baggio is
being promoted to Director of Radio Programming and
Operations for the Pattison Broadcast Group Kamloops
Radio Division.

03/22/10
- Rus "RJ" Smith hopes to get a community radio station
up and running in West Kelowna. Marshall Jones,
Kelowna.com

02/19/10 - The Superior Court of Ontario has given the nod to Shaw Communicationsto take control of Canwest Global Communications.
Shaw revealed that its investment amounts to a minimum of
$95-million in exchange for 20 per cent of the equity and an
80-per-cent voting interest in the restructured
company. A competing bid from private equity firm Catalyst
Capital Group was set aside. Globe and Mail

02/19/10 - Catalyst Capital Group Inc., has assembled a rival bid for Canwest Global Communications Corp. to compete with last week's offer by Shaw Communications.The
$120-million bid is backed by the Asper family and
supported by Goldman Sachs. Andrew Willis and Grant
Robertson, Globe and Mail
Meanwhile, lawyers for CanWest told a Toronto court
today that a last-minute rival bid to buy the media conglomerate should
not derail a deal already announced by Shaw. Canwest owns Global Television Network which includes CHBC-TV Kelowna.

02/12/10
- Canwest Global Communications Corp. has agreed to sell
a controlling stake of its company to Shaw
Communications Corp. Financial terms were not disclosed, pending
court and CRTC approval next week. Canwest owns
Global Television Network which includes CHBC-TV
Kelowna.

02/11/10 - Astral Media has applied to the CRTC to flip CHOR AM 1450
Summerland to the FM band. The new station would
operate at 98.5 MHz with a maximum ERP of 100 watts at
348 metres HAAT. Astral proposes a mainstream adult
contemporary format. The Commission previously
denied an application to flip the station to FM in August 2005
saying that it would give the owner at the time, Standard
Broadcasting, three stations with effective coverage of
the Penticton market. CRTC info CRTC 2005 denial

02/03/10 - B-103 Kelowna's Best Country CKQQ-FM 103.1 has become The Q "It's all about the music".

01/20/10
- Former CFOX-FM 99.3 Vancouver weekend host Katie
Campbell has landed the position of promotions director
at The Juice CJUI-FM 103.9 Kelowna. She starts January 25.

01/16/10 - The Corus Radio news-talk network will air Operation Haiti, a live radiothon hosted by Charles Adler on Monday, January 18. Locally, it will air on AM 1150 CKFR Kelowna and Radio NL CHNL AM 610 Kamloops from 11 a.m. - 2 p.m. Broadcaster Magazine

01/08/10 - The Industry Canada database notes that the call letters for B-103 CKOV-FM 103.1 Kelowna have been changed to CKQQ-FM.

01/08/10 - Canwest Global Communications Corp's
publishing group has been put up for sale following a
court filing for creditor protection. It includes the Victoria
Times Colonist, Vancouver Sun and Province, and a number
of community newspapers. Global Television, locally
CHBC-TV/2 Kelowna, and some specialty channels, has been under creditor protection since October 6.

11/22/09 - Former CKOV Kelowna DJ Steve Young reflects on his stint at Radio Caroline.

11/03/09 - Early
1950s CKOK Penticton broadcaster Norris McLean, whose
career was mostly in Edmonton radio and television, was
known for his warm and tender personality. He died October 4 at
age 76. Cigdem Iltan, Edmonton Journal

10/28/09 - Country 103
CJKC-FM 103.1 Kamloops PD and midday host Kelly Moore
received on-air personality for the 250 area code award
at the BCCMA
33rd annual awards show Sunday at the Red Robinson Show
Threatre in Coquitlam, near Vancouver. John P. McLaughlin, The Province

10/07/09
- CHBC-TV/2 Kelowna program co-ordinator Patrick Vanderburg
believes station owner Canwest Global Communications
Corp. will owe him $95,000 in un-collectable severance and vacation pay
when he is laid off in December. David Friend, CP/Canadian Business

10/06/09
- Canwest Media Inc., the holding company for Canwest
Global Communications Corp. has filed for bankruptcy
protection. Canwest owns the Global Television
network, which includes CHBC-TV/2 Kelowna and Global BC CHAN-TV/8
Vancouver, along with daily newspapers and specialty TV
channels. The company expects the court ordered
restructuring of its debt to take four to six months. Globe and Mail Financial Post

09/14/09 - CFJC-TV/4
Kamloops midday news host/producer and 5 p.m. weather
reporter Tracy Pellizzari has added duties as she joins the team as an
anchor for the 6:30 and 11 p.m. newscasts.

09/04/09 - CHBC-TV/2
Kelowna is cutting staff in technical operations and
news. Local programing has been reduced to 13 from more than 20
hours per week earlier in the summer. Alistair Waters, Kelowna Capital News

09/01/09 - Ted Farr has been appointed general manager of The Juice CJUI-FM 103.9
Kelowna effective September 8. He is also president of his own
consulting company, Ted Farr Media. He has held
management positions in Vancouver, Calgary and Winnipeg.

09/01/09 - Q101 CKMQ-FM 101.1 Merritt officially launched at 1:01 p.m. yesterday. The first song aired, introduced by Bryan Adams, was his own song, Here I Am.The
station provides the first 24 hours per day, 7 days per
week local radio service in Merritt and the Nicola Valley and will simulcast on its old AM 1230 frequency until November 30. At that time CJNL AM 1230 will become a full time rebroadcaster of CHNL AM 610 Kamloops.

08/16/09 - Q101
CKMQ-FM 101.1 Merritt has begun testing its new
signal. Official sign-on is scheduled for 1:01 p.m.
Monday, August 31.

08/10/09 - Canwest Global Communications, parent company of CHBC-TV/2 Kelowna, CHAN-TV/8 Vancouver, CHEK-TV/6
Victoria and a host of other media properties, has
initiated talks with the federal government on a potential
change of ownership. Grant Robertson and Andrew Willis, Globe and Mail

07/29/09
- In a recent poll, 84% of Kamloops residents say it is
unfair that they will be deprived access to free TV
signals following a CRTC ruling that requires broadcasters to provide
over-the-air signals in only 29 major cities after the
transition to digital TV. 6% of Kamloops' viewers
watch TV over the air. Broadcaster Magazine

07/27/09
- Robert Pye, whose broadcast career included CKOK
Penticton, CHBC-TV and CILK-FM Kelowna and the CBC national
radio network, died in Winfield July 16. He was 73. There
will be no service by request. Penticton Herald obituary.

07/22/09
- CHBC-TV/2 Kelowna will become a Global TV affiliate on
September 1. CHEK-TV/6 Victoria has become a
casualty of the recession. Owner Canwest Global
anounced today that financial losses have forced CHEK to
go dark on August 31. It signed on December 1, 1956.
Also being shut down at the same time is CHCA-TV/6 Red Deer
AB. Carla Wilson, Victoria Times Colonist
Canwest release

07/20/09 - Sun FM CHSU-FM 99.9 and Silk CILK-FM 101.5
Kelowna returned to music programming early this
morning, continuing with regular updates on the West Kelowna fires while
sister station AM 1150 CKFR continues with wall to wall coverage.

07/07/09 - Recently named BCAB Broadcast Performer of Tomorrow, Kevin Lim is leaving his p.m. drive position at Sun FM CHSU-FM 99.9 Kelowna for an evening slot at Virgin Radio CKZZ-FM 95.3 Vancouver. Ara Andonian from The River CKRV-FM 97.5 Kamloops will take over at Sun FM.

07/04/09 - When CJNL AM 1230 Merritt moves to FM, it will identify as Q101 with the slogan Merritt's Music Mix and official call letters CKMQ-FM. Sign on is scheduled for 1:01 p.m. Monday, August 31. CHNL
AM 610 Kamloops will then re-broadcast its programming
on 1230 kHz. The CRTC approved the changes on April
24.

06/30/09
- 1960s Canadian singing sensation Terry
Black died Sunday in Kamloops at age 62. He had been hosting The Sixties at Six on Radio ’NL CHNL AM 610 Kamloops for several years. Kelowna Capital News Red Robinson Tribute

06/24/09
- Lieutenant Gerry Pash has retired from his military
role with the Canadian Forces Reserve at age 65. He
spent numerous years in broadcasting at CKDA Victoria, CHWK Chilliwack
and was VP and Managing Director of Okanagan Radio in
Penticton from 1972-89. He will continue as a civilian public affairs officer for the Canadian Forces Reserve.A News

05/29/09 - The latest BBM S2 2009 12+ ratings for
Kelowna rank A/C CILK-FM 101.5 in first place with a
15.7 share, Hot A/C CHSU-FM 99.9 is second with 13.8 and
Classic Rock newcomer CKKO-FM 96.3 is third with
12.0. In Kamloops, Classic/Mainstream Rock CIFM-FM 98.3 is first
with 20.5, News/Talk CHNL AM 610 is second with 19.2 and Country CJKC-FM
103.1 is third with 16.5.

05/09/09 - Ken Allan joonyer,
who has entertained Vancouver radio listeners for the
past nine years, is moving back to his hometown. Effective May
25, he takes over as afternoon drive host at The Juice CJUI-FM 103.9 Kelowna.

05/07/09 - Former Okanagan and
Vancouver broadcaster Al Jordan died today in Vancouver at age
80. He was production director and host of Theme for Teens
on CJOR Vancouver, worked on air at CKOK Penticton and read news during
a.m. drive on CKWX in the early to mid 1950s. He also helped
launch CHBC-TV Kelowna from 1957-59 before returning to Vancouver as a
CFUN Good Guy in the early 1960s.

04/29/09 - Canadian sports broadcasting legend and CBC Television veteran Ted Reynolds
died early Tuesday morning at age 83. His career, which began at
CFJC radio in Kamloops, spanned more than 50 years, 35 of
them with CBC Television, and included play-by-play and
Olympic Games. He was also a freelance broadcaster,
retiring two years ago at age 81. CBC news

04/24/09
- The CRTC has approved an application by Merritt
Broadcasting Ltd. to flip CJNL AM 1230 Merritt to the FM band. It
will operate at 101.1 MHz with an effective radiated
power of 200 watts with an AC format. The
Commission also has approved an application by N L Broadcasting Ltd. to
re-broadcast the programming of CHNL AM 610
Kamloops on 1230 kHz in Merritt with 1000 watts
day/night, with the same technical parameters as the
current CJNL. CRTC decision

04/15/09
- BC Children's Hospital Foundation has announced that
it has formed a partnership with The Jim Pattison
Broadcast Group.
Under the partnership, Pattison's 19 radio stations in
BC will support the foundation in its efforts to promote the
$200-million Campaign for BC Children around the
province. The Foundation also has a partnership
with Global BC CHAN-TV/8
Vancouver, which has been providing news coverage and
airing campaign public service announcements.
Broadcaster Magazine

04/08/09
- The federal government is considering a $150-million
local programming fund tied to news and current affairs
programming to help smaller market TV stations in Canada. Members
of Parliament have grown concerned in recent weeks that
the CRTC is not moving fast enough to address the
prospect that some small stations could be shut down. CBC
eligiblity is still unclear. CanWest Global
Communications has indicated it may close its five-city
network E!, which includes CHEK-TV/6 Victoria and
CHBC-TV/2 Kelowna, if a buyer can't be found. Grant
Robertson, Globe and Mail CBC News

03/28/09
- CanWest Global Communications
has put the potential closing of some of its smaller-market
television stations on hold until the end of summer and says it has
received interest from potential buyers for some stations
that operate under the E! brand. E! stations
include CHEK-TV/6 Victoria, CHBC-TV/2 Kelowna and stations in Hamilton,
Montreal, and Red Deer AB. Grant
Robertson and Andrew Willis, Globe and Mail

02/26/09 - The CRTC has approved an application by Sun Country Radio Ltd. to acquire the assets of CKKO-FM 96.3
Kelowna from Sun Country Cablevision Ltd. The
acquisition of assets was undertaken solely for the
corporate restructuring purposes of separating the radio undertaking
from Sun Country Cablevision’s other assets. CRTC decision

02/18/09
- The CRTC has approved a frequency change for VF2329
Big White Mountain from 103.9 MHz to 93.1 MHz and an increase in the
effective height of its antenna from 215 to 600.8 meters
above average terrain. All other technical
parameters remain unchanged. The transmitter rebroadcasts CILK-FM
101.5 Kelowna. The application was the result of
the licensing of Vista Broadcasting's new station, CJUI-FM 103.9
Kelowna. CRTC decision

02/06/09 - Canwest Global Communications
has given itself six to eight weeks to complete a review of its
E! network stations in Kelowna, Victoria, Montreal, Hamilton and
Red Deer and says it has received interest from
potential buyers. Two major players, Rogers Communications
and Astral Media, say they are not looking at the E! network
assets. The stations could be shut down if a buyer
can't be found in the next two months. Grant Robertson, Globe and Mail Castanet

02/05/09
- Canwest Global Communications is considering selling
CHEK-TV/6 Victoria and CHBC-TV/2
Kelowna, along with its television stations in Montreal,
Hamilton and Red Deer. The company says that they will not be
part the core of its operations in the future.
Canadian Press/CBC Canwest release

01/22/09
- CTV Television Network and Canwest Global
Communications Corp. are hinting at the possibility of closing down
some of their TV stations in smaller markets. Grant
Robertson, Globe and Mail

12/23/08 - Astral Media Radio has applied to
the CRTC to change the frequency of its Silk CILK-FM
101.5 Kelowna transmitter VF2329 at Big White Mountain from 103.9 to 93.1 MHz and
increasing HAAT from 215 metres to 600.8 meters. The change is
necessitated by the recent approval of the Vista Radio
application for a new FM station in Kelowna at 103.9 MHz. CRTC info

11/21/08
- The CRTC has once again denied an application by the Jim Pattison Broadcast Group to acquire the assets
of CIGV-FM 100.7 Penticton from Great Valleys Radio
Ltd. After the previous application was denied last February, the company proposed
to reduce the average ERP of CIGV-FM from 6,300 watts to 3,100 watts to eliminate the
overlap between the 3mV/m contours with Pattison’s stations in Kelowna.
The Commission stated that the substantial decrease to the contour would not constitute an
effective use of the frequency. CRTC decision

11/18/08 -
Former Vancouver
radio newsman Jack Bennest
was re-elected Saturday in the growing Town of Oliver,
topping the poll and getting more
votes and a higher rating than anyone in the
councillors position in recent
memory. Bennest was first elected in 1988 and has
served three terms. He is
now retired from full time employment, is starting a
consulting company and operates the BC Radio History website. In
addition,
Okanagan broadcaster Patrick Nichol was re-elected to Vernon
City Council.

11/13/08
-
Sun Country Radio Ltd. has applied to the CRTC to acquire
the assets of CKKO-FM 96.3 Kelowna from Sun Country Cablevision Ltd.
The application is effectively a corporate
reorganization. CRTC info

11/13/08 -
Merritt Broadcasting Ltd. has applied to the CRTC to move CJNL AM 1230 Merritt to FM.
It is proposed to operate on 101.1 MHz with an ERP of 200 watts omni-directional
with a HAAT of 601.4 metres. The conversion is tied to an application filed by
N L Broadcasting Ltd., licensee of CHNL AM 610
Kamloops, to add an AM transmitter at Merritt to operate at 1230 kHz with a power of 1,000
watts day and night. CRTC info #1
CRTC info
#2

11/12/08 -
CanWest Global is cutting five per cent of
its nationwide workforce, 560 jobs in all, as it streamlines operations. Included
are over 40 at the company's three TV stations in British Columbia. 23 production,
sales and managerial jobs are being cut at CHBC Kelowna, 18 at CHEK Victoria and at least
four at Global Vancouver. Some on-air personnel also have been laid off. The
commercial production departments of CHEK and CHBC are also being shut down. In
addition, the CHBC evening newscast will be anchored from the CHEK studio in
Victoria. Shane
Bigham, News1130 Castanet

10/31/08 -
The CRTC has approved an application by the Jim
Pattison Broadcast Group to acquire the assets of CKIZ-FM
107.5 Vernon and its transmitter CKIZ-FM-1 Enderby from Rogers Broadcasting Limited.
The Commission denied a previous application due to the station's overlap into the
Kelowna market. Pattison has since made a slight modification to the 3mV/m contour. CRTC decision

10/29/08 -
After less than a month since official sign-on, The Juice CJUI-FM 103.9 Kelowna has adjusted its morning
show. Now teamed up with co-host Liz McKinney is John Michaels, who replaces
“Moose” Trevor Stoyko.

10/24/08 -
After 26 years on CBC Radio, broadcaster Neil Gillon signed off for the last time October
10 as the co-host of the morning show Daybreak South. A special retirement
broadcast was held at the Roasted Bean Coffee Shop in Kelowna. CBC
news

09/30/08 -
The Juice CJUI-FM 103.9 Kelowna is
officially signed on September 29 with Liz McKinney and “Moose” Trevor Stoyko
mornings, Natalee Taylor middays and Jay Stone in p.m. drive. The Juice
plays a Classic Hits music format that encompasses the best of the 80s, 90s and now.

09/13/08 -
Vista Radio Ltd.'s new station CJUI-FM 103.9 has been testing over the past week, asking
for interference reports. They are Identifying as "CJUI, The Juice,
playing whatever".

09/02/08 -
Astral Media Radio Sales has
announced that it is representing the two Pattison-owned radio stations in Kelowna
effective September 1. Broadcaster
Magazine

08/21/08 -
The Jim Pattison Broadcast Group has once again
applied to the CRTC to acquire the assets of CIGV-FM
100.7 Penticton. The Commission denied a previous application
in February, on the grounds that acquisition of CIGV-FM would contravene its Common
Ownership Policy. This time, to eliminate the need for an exception to the Policy in
the Kelowna market, Pattison has requested a decrease in the average effective radiated
power from 6,300 watts (maximum effective radiated power of 14,000 watts) to an average
effective radiated power of 3,100 watts. The application will be considered at
a public hearing commencing October 20 in Cambridge, ON. CRTC info

08/07/08 -
The CRTC has approved application by Vista Radio Ltd. for the use of 103.9 MHz with an
average ERP of 5,200 watts (maximum power 10,000 watts). Vista previously applied to
use 96.1 MHz but was denied by the Commission. CRTC decision

07/17/08 -
The Jim Pattison Broadcast Group has applied to
the CRTC to acquire the assets of CKIZ-FM 107.5 Vernon and its 10-watt transmitter
CKIZ-FM-1 93.9 Enderby from Rogers
Broadcasting Limited. The Commission will consider the application at a public
hearing beginning September 24 in Gatineau, Quebec. CRTC info

06/01/08 -
K963 - Kelowna's Classic Rock CKKO-FM 96.3 has
begun testing and has launched its new website, which states it will be on air this Fall.

05/27/08 -
Kelowna's new CKKO-FM 96.3 has released its logo and announced it will identify as K963
- Kelowna's Classic Rock. The station is expected on air this Fall. Logo

05/27/08 -
Kent
Molgat has been named Okanagan Bureau Chief for CTV British Columbia CIVT-TV/32 Vancouver. He was the longest serving
reporter at CHBC-TV/2 Kelowna with 20 years of service.
Prior to CHBC, he was on air at CJIB Vernon.

05/21/08 -
Sun Country Cablevision, licensee of the new CKKO-FM
96.3 Kelowna has announced the appointment of Dallas Gray as GM and general sales manager,
and Garry Barker as PD and promotions manager. Gray previously was GSM of the
Standard Radio group (now Astral) in Kelowna and Barker is president of the Atlantic
Median Institute in Halifax. They have a combined total of over 60 years of
broadcast experience. CKKO is expected on air this fall.

05/16/08 - Vista Radio Ltd. has applied to the
CRTC for use of 103.9 MHz with a maximum ERP of 10,000 watts for the operation of its
recently approved station in Kelowna. Vista previously applied to use 96.1 MHz
but was denied by the Commission. CRTC info

05/13/08 - The British
Columbia Association of Broadcasters concluded its annual conference at Harrison Hot
Springs with the announcement of its annual $3 million radio and TV public service media
donation and broadcast awards. Dick
Drew, Broadcaster Magazine

05/10/08 - Veteran CBC Vancouver TV reporter
and journalistic editor Dave Roegele died May 8 at age 84. His media career began at
CKOK Penticton in 1948. He also worked at CHEK-TV Victoria, KTVW-TV Tacoma and
KVOS-TV Bellingham. He began at CBC-TV in 1966 and retired in 1984. Memorial
Services will be held Friday, May 16 at 10:00 a.m. at Victory
Memorial Park Funeral Centre in Surrey. CBC obituary and photo

03/16/08 -
Calgary-based lawyer Margot Micallef, CEO of Vista Radio Ltd., bought her first station on
Vancouver Island in 2004, but now owns 22 in Western Canada and has landed a new licence
in Kelowna. Wendy
Stueck, Globe and Mail

03/14/08 -
The CRTC has approved two new stations to serve Kelowna. Getting the nod are Sun
Country Cablevision Ltd. for a Classic Rock station at 96.3 MHz with an average
effective radiated power of 7,100 watts and Vista Radio Ltd. for a Classic Hits station.
Vista's application for 96.1 MHz was technically exclusive so the Commission has
given the company 90 days to come up with an alternate frequency acceptable to both it and
Industry Canada. Nine other applications were turned down. CRTC decision

02/25/08 -
The CRTC has denied application by the Jim Pattison Broadcast Group to acquire the assets
of CKIZ-FM 107.5 Vernon and CIGV-FM 100.7 Penticton. CRTC decision
Rachael
Kimola, Castanet

01/15/08 -
Broadcaster Terry
David Mulligan, who has hosted numerous radio and TV programs in the Vancouver market
and is now living in Penticton, is suing CTV for wrongful dismissal. Mulligan claims
that he was fired without cause, given inadequate notice and discriminated against on the
basis of age. Keith
Fraser, Vancouver Province

01/10/08 -
CHOR AM 1450 Summerland has morphed from
oldies to a news/talk/sports format with music in the mornings.

11/19/07 - CKOV AM 630 shut down at 1 p.m. Saturday,
November 17 following its authorized three month simulcast with B-103 CKOV-FM 103.1, which officially signed on at noon August
17. It was the Okanagan's longest running AM station. Castanet

10/19/07 - One of the applicants for a new FM
station in Kelowna, Vista Radio, has changed its originally proposed Country music format
to Classic Hits in light of a recent music format change in the market. A public
hearing into the applications will begin October 30 at the Best Western Inn in Kelowna.
CRTC
notice

10/17/07 - The CRTC has approved application by Astral Media
to operate rebroadcast transmitters of CKXR-FM
91.5 Salmon Arm in Enderby at 104.3 MHz with an ERP of 210 watts and Sicamous at 102.1
MHz with an ERP of 200 watts. The Commission accepted the licensee’s claim that
listeners in several communities within the station’s original AM coverage area were
unable to receive a good quality signal of the FM station. CRTC decision

09/28/07 - The CRTC has
approved application by Astral Media
to acquire the assets of the radio and television programming undertakings across Canada
owned by Standard Radio Inc., which includes
two television stations in British Columbia, numerous radio stations in Quebec, Ontario,
Manitoba, Alberta, Saskatchewan and B.C., and three radio networks. The
transaction is valued at $1,082,369,866 and is expected to close October 29. The
Commission finds that the number of radio and TV stations that the applicant would own in
each of the concerned markets is within established limits. The deal involves ten
stations in the Okanagan. CRTC decisionAstral Media release

09/21/07 - Veteran broadcaster Don Weglo signs off
after 33 years on air in Vernon. Roger
Knox, Morning Star

09/20/07 - The CRTC will examine the application by the Jim Pattison Broadcast Group to acquire the assets of CIGV-FM
100.7 Penticton from Great Valleys Radio Ltd. at its public hearing on October 30 in
Kelowna. CRTC
info

09/07/07 - The Okanagan's Very Own CHBC-TV/2 Kelowna will unveil its new programming lineup
during the 5 p.m. newscast today, as it rebrands to E! and and adds a new 6:30
p.m. local newscast.

09/03/07 - The face of radio and TV is changing in
the Okanagan. Later this month CHBC-TV/2 Kelowna
will relaunch as part of Canwest Global's new E! network and add a local 6:30
newscast with Klaudia Celgarz. Jason
Luciw, Capital News

08/31/07 - The CRTC
will hold a public hearing
beginning October 30 at the Best Western Inn in Kelowna to
consider numerous applications,
including eleven for a new FM station to serve
Kelowna. Also to be heard is an
application by Jim Pattison Broadcast Group to acquire the
assets of CKIZ-FM 107.5 Vernon and its transmitter CKIZ-FM-1
Enderby from Rogers Broadcasting Limited. CRTC info

08/29/07 - Oldies CKFR
AM 1150 Kelowna flipped to News/Talk/Sports at 10 a.m. today, filling the gap left by
the move of CKOV-FM 103.1 from news/talk to country on August 17, as it
signed onto the FM band. The station will run a local news/magazine morning show hosted by Phil Johnson and Whitney Deane,
followed by mostly syndicated programming originating at CKNW
AM 980 Vancouver.

08/28/07 -
The CRTC grilled Astral Media Inc. yesterday over the
stated $1.08 billion purchase price for Standard
Broadcasting Ltd., indicating the transaction is worth more. The deal, when
approved, will turn Astral into Canada's biggest radio company, with 81 stations,
including 60 FM stations. There are two stations in Vancouver and several more in
the B.C. interior. Grant
Robertson, Globe and Mail

08/25/07 -
News/talk/sports will replace oldies on CKFR AM
1150 Kelowna on or before September 1. Wayne Moore,
Castanet

08/23/07
-
News director Jim Harrison of CHNL AM 610 Kamloops
has been named the 2007 Bruce Hutchison Lifetime Achievement
Award recipient by the Jack Webster Foundation. In addition to
news
reporting, he has researched, written and broadcast 8000
editorial comments nearly every
day since 1975. Vancouver
Sun

08/17/07 -
B-103 CKOV-FM 103.1 Kelowna officially signed
on at noon today with its new country format. PD Bob Mills says, "CKOV has lost
money for years and I'm talking about hundreds of thousands of dollars annually, so a
change had to happen." The station is authorized to simulcast on its old AM 630
frequency for a period of three months. It is retaining the official CKOV call
letters as a tribute to the Browne family, who launched the original station. CKOV
talk show host John Michaels will be joined by Heather Adams, formerly of SILK FM, to host
mornings. Kelly
Hayes, Castanet

08/09/07 -
The Jim Pattison Broadcast Group has announced
it has agreed to purchase Giant FM CIGV-FM 100.7
Penticton from Great Valleys Radio Ltd. Value of the sale has not yet been released
and is subject to CRTC approval. Wayne Moore,
Castanet

08/08/07 -
Over the weekend Power 104 CKLZ-FM 104.7
Kelowna shifted to a more current-based mainstream rock format, branding as Kelowna's
Best Rock as sister station CKOV AM 630 gets set
to move to 103.1 FM. Wayne Moore, Castanet
Meanwhile CKOV has been testing on its new FM assignment for the past couple of
weeks with a new country music format and branding of B-103
Kelowna's Best Country. Recent reports indicate that Oldies CKFR AM 1150 will pick up much of the talk
programming currently running on CKOV.

07/31/07 -
The CRTC's annual report on the state of the Canadian broadcast industry finds that more
are accessing the Internet, with slight drop-offs in radio and TV consumption. CP/Globe
and Mail Meanwhile B.C. residents listen to radio almost two hours less per week
than the Canadian average. Vancouver
Sun

07/12/07 - Ian Greenberg, CEO of Montreal-based Astral Media, says the deal to
acquire Standard Radio Inc. hasn't put a
damper on other potential transactions. The company announced in mid April that it
was purchasing 52 AM and FM stations that make up the Toronto-based Standard Radio group.
The group includes two Vancouver radio stations and several more in the interior.
David Friend, The
Star/Canadian Press

07/09/07
-
Standard Radio Inc. has applied to the CRTC to add
re-broadcast transmitters of CKXR-FM 91.5 Salmon Arm at Enderby and
Sicamous. The Enderby transmitter would operate on
104.3 MHz with an ERP of 210
watts and Sicamous would operate on 102.1 MHz with an ERP of
200 watts. The
Commission previously authorized an extension of time to
shut down the old CKXR AM 580
transmitter to February 27, 2008 because the new FM signal
was not suitably reaching these
communities. CRTC notice

06/21/07 - The
CRTC has received application by Astral Media Radio Inc. to acquire the assets of 52 radio
and 2 television stations across Canada from Standard Broadcasting Inc. for $1.043
billion. The stations include two radio stations in Vancouver, along with 19 more
radio and two TV stations in the B.C. Interior, including 11 radio stations in the
Okanagan. CRTC
info

05/17/07 - The
CRTC has ruled that Canada's conventional television networks cannot charge monthly fees
to cable and satellite companies for carrying their signals. The regulator also said
it is removing restrictions on advertising time limits and has ruled that August 30, 2011
is the date that television channels will only be broadcast in digital. Grant
Robertson, Globe and Mail CRTC notice

05/12/07 - After
over 30 years as anchor of one of North America's most watched local newscasts on Global
BC CHAN-TV/8 Vancouver, Tony
Parsons will scale back to two days a week starting in September. Weekend News
Hour anchor Chris
Gailus will take over the extra days. Parsons plans full retirement in Kelowna
after the 2010 Olympic Games. Dana
Gee, The Province

05/11//07 - In a speech yesterday in Penticton, CRTC
chairman Konrad von Finckenstein suggested the Commission will entertain “a lighter
approach to regulation” as long as support for Canadian programming is upheld. Grant
Robertson, Globe and Mail

05/10/07 - The CRTC has approved application
by Chase and District Community Radio Society to acquire the assets of developmental
community FM radio station CFCH-FM 103.5
Chase. CRTC
decision

05/09/07 - The Jim
Pattison Broadcast Group has announced that it is purchasing KISS CKIZ-FM 107.5 Vernon from Rogers
Broadcasting. The station began operations in 1947 as CJIB AM 940 and was
acquired from Toronto-based Rogers in 1989. Broadcaster
Magazine

05/02/07 - The CRTC has authorized Standard Radio
Inc. to extend simulcasting the programming of CKXR-FM
91.5 Salmon Arm on its old AM frequency of 580 kHz until February 27, 2008 in order to
add repeaters to Enderby and Sicamous. CRTC decision

04/23/07 - The CRTC
has approved application by the Jim Pattison Broadcast Group to move
CKOV AM 630 Kelowna to the FM band. The new
station will offer a Soft Vocals music format and will
continue with news and information
programming, including Open Line with John Michaels. It will operate at 103.1
MHz with an average ERP of 11,000 watts. CRTC release

04/12/07 - Montreal-based Astral Media Inc. has clinched a
deal to purchase 52 AM and FM stations that make up the Toronto-based Standard Radio Inc. group, creating a radio
empire with 81 stations. It is worth $1.08-billion and creates Canada's largest
network of commercial stations, including two in Vancouver and several in the B.C.
interior. A letter of intent was signed in February. The deal is expected to
close early next year and is subject to CRTC approval. Tavia
Grant, Globe and Mail Reuters/Financial
Post Broadcaster
Magazine station list

03/12/07 - The CRTC has announced that it has
received an application for a new commercial station to serve Kelowna and has put out a
call for further applications. CRTC Public Notice

02/23/07 - Astral Media Inc. has confirmed that
it has signed a letter of intent to buy Standard
Broadcasting Corp. Ltd., which will make Astral Canada’s biggest radio
broadcaster with 81 stations. The purchase price has not been released, but is
expected to be about $1.15 billion. Peter
Koven and Barbara Shecter, Financial Post Grant
Robertson, Globe and Mail

02/23/07 - A deal could be in place as early as next
week over the sale of Standard Broadcasting Corp.
Ltd. to Astral Media Inc.
Standard owns 51 radio stations across Canada, including two in Vancouver and
several in the B.C. interior. Barbara
Shecter, Financial Post

12/20/06 - The CRTC
has approved application by Standard Radio Inc. to acquire the assets of
CILK-FM 101.5 Kelowna and its transmitters CILC-FM Magna
Bay and VF2329 Big White Mountain from Silk FM Broadcasting
Ltd. The value of the
transaction, based on the purchase and sales agreement, is
$9,250,000. CRTC decision

12/16/06 - The CRTC holds the line on content
regulations for Canadian radio stations, but ups the fees for development of artists,
while easing the burden on smaller stations. The amount of domestic content played
on jazz, blues and concert music stations will increase. Grant
Robertson, Globe and Mail Barbara
Shecter, Financial Post

12/14/06
- Jim Pattison Broadcast Group has applied
to the CRTC to convert CKOV AM 630 Kelowna to the FM
band. The new station would operate at 103.1 MHz with an average effective radiated
power of 11,000 watts (35,000 watts peak), with a Soft Vocals music format
complemented by a continuation of CKOV’s traditional style of news and information
programming. CRTC info

11/24/06 - CanWest Global Communications is proposing that the major Canadian networks
charge 50 cents a month per cable and satellite TV viewer for stations which can normally
be received over the air. Grant
Robertson, Globe & Mail

10/31/06 - Kent Molgat and Blaine Gaffney of CHBC-TV/2 Kelowna have won Best News Reporting of the
Year at the 2006 Jack Webster Awards held last night at the Vancouver Convention and
Exhibition Centre. Broadcaster
Magazine Award
Winners

10/27/06 - The CRTC
has approved application
by The Kamloops Campus/Community Radio Society to change the
authorized contours of CFBX-FM 92.5 Kamloops by increasing ERP from
4.9 to
420 watts and decreasing antenna height and relocating
the transmitter. The
power increase changes the station's status from a low power
unprotected service to a
regular Class A service. CRTC decision

09/31/06 - Standard Radio Inc. has applied to the CRTC
to acquire the assets of CILK-FM 101.5 Kelowna and its
transmitters CILC-FM Magna Bay and VF2329 Big White Mountain from Silk FM Broadcasting
Ltd. The value of the transaction, based on the purchase and sales agreement, is
$9,250,000. CRTC
application

09/23/06 - The Kelowna Rockets Hockey Club has announced that Standard Radio's Okanagan Sun FM cluster p.m. drive and
play-by-play announcer Ryan Watters has been hired as the new Assistant to the
Director of Marketing and Game Operations. Rockets press
release

08/11/06 - Country 103 CJKC-FM 103.1 Kamloops officially signed on at
1:03 p.m. today. After opening ceremonies, Kamloops Mayor Terry Lake pushed the
button to launch the first song, "Play Something Country" by Brooks and Dunn,
followed by "She's Gone Country" by Alan Jackson and Shania Twain's "Rock
This Country". Music continued with 1031 country hits in a row over the
weekend. Regular programming begins Monday morning with host Howie Reimer.

07/26/06 - Further broadcast consolidation could
occur as Standard Broadcasting Corp. Ltd. is
approached. Standard owns 51 radio stations in Canada, including two in Vancouver
and several more in the B.C. interior. Grant
Robertson/Sinclair Stewart, The Globe and Mail

07/21/06 - Statistics Canada has announced that last
year's CBC lockout has caused the public broadcaster's total audience to drop from 11% to
8.8%, moving it from third to fifth place in overall format ranking. Adult
contemporary remains the first choice for Canadians. Suzanne
Ma, Globe & Mail Broadcaster
Magazine

07/02/06 - Final regulatory approvals have been
received and a sign-on date is now set for Country 103 CJKC-FM 103.1 Kamloops. The first broadcast will
commence at 1:03 p.m. Friday, August 11, with 1031 country hits in a row over the
weekend. Then, at 6 a.m. Monday, August 14, Howie Reimer hosts a.m. drive with Brett
Mineer providing news. Kelly Moore hosts midday with Brad Russell afternoons and
Louis McIvor weekends.

06/07/06 - CKXR-FM 91.5 Salmon Arm officially signed on
its new FM transmitter Monday morning (06/05). It will simulcast programming on its
AM 580 position for about three months.

05/19/06 - The test period for Country 103 CJKC-FM 103.1 Kamloops will come to an end at
noon on Tuesday, May 23, with Industry Canada inspectors advising that no interference was
encountered by other radio frequency users. Kelly Moore from Winnipeg will be PD and
two announcers will move from sister station Radio NL CHNL AM 610, Howie Reimer as opening day morning person
and Brad Scott afternoons. The station is expected to be on-air in early summer.

05/05/06 - Commercial FM radio has exceeded the $1-billion revenue mark in Canada, at a
time when the industry is seeking restrictions and changes to ownership rules. Grant
Robertson, The Globe and Mail

05/03/06 - Country 103 CJKC-FM 103.1 Kamloops began testing today.
Tests will continue for a three-week period, with the station scheduled to go on air in
August. Meanwhile, one studio and a news facility remain to be completed, and air
personalities are being recruited.

05/03/06 - Nick Frost, President of Silk FM
CILK-FM 101.5 Kelowna, has announced sale of the station
to Standard Radio Inc. The sale is
subject to CRTC approval and does not include Frost's other company Castanet.net.
Silk and
Standard press releases

04/19/06 - CKXR-FM Salmon Arm is on air testing its new
91.5 transmitter. The station will be moving from AM 580.

04/10/06 - A breakdown of ratings for Kelowna S1
2006 and other Canadian radio markets is available at Canadian Broadcast Sales.

04/05/06 - The CRTC has denied application by the
Kelowna Christian Center Society for a new commercial specialty FM station in the city.
CRTC
decision

03/10/06 - The CRTC has approved application by Destination Osoyoos Development
Society to operate a low-power tourist FM radio station in Osoyoos. The
proposed station would operate at 106.5 MHz with an effective radiated power of
16.5 watts. CRTC info

03/05/06 - Kelly Moore, former play by play
voice of the Kamloops Blazers, has been appointed Program Director of the new Country
103 CJKC-FM 103.1 Kamloops. Local
Advertising Sales Manager will be Brett McIlwain, who has been associated with
the Radio NL group for 10 years. Country
103 will launch this summer.

02/01/06 - The CRTC has approved application by CFJC-TV/4 Kamloops and its transmitters to delete its
affiliation with the CBC national, English-language television network. CRTC decision

01/16/06 - Industry Canada has approved CJKC-FM as
the call letters for Kamloops' new Country 103.
The station will operate at 103.1 MHz with an ERP of 5000 watts.

12/19/05 - Studio broadcast equipment has arrived
and awaits installation at Kamloops' new Country
103. Transmitting equipment will be ordered early in the new year after a
site lease has been finalized to locate the facility on Mount Dufferin and application has
been made to Industry Canada for call letters. Estimated sign on is now summer 2006.

11/25/05 - Standard
Radio Inc. has applied to the CRTC to amend the licence of its new CKXR-FM Salmon Arm by changing the frequency
from 99.7 MHz to 91.5 MHz. CRTC info

11/15/05 - The CRTC has received application from
Kelowna Christian Center Society for a licence to operate a new Christian music
station in Kelowna. The new station would operate on 91.1 MHz with an ERP of 47.8
watts. The application will be heard at a public hearing commencing on January
16, 2006 in Gatineau, Quebec. CRTC info

11/07/05 - Canada's commercial radio stations
are fighting a multimillion-dollar decision by the federal copyright regulator to increase
the amount broadcasters must pay musicians for the right to play their songs. Grant
Robertson, The Globe and Mail

11/01/05 - Jim Pattison Broadcast Group has
applied to the CRTC to drop the affiliation of CFJC-TV/4
Kamloops with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. CRTC notice

10/24/05 - CBC Radio 3 personality Alexis Mazurin
died Thursday evening (October 20) in Vancouver at the age of 27. He had been
attending the annual Burning Man art festival in Nevada's Black Rock Desert in early
September when he suffered a massive heart attack in his sleep. The Penticton born
Mazurin was rushed to hospital in Reno where he fell into a coma, then was transferred to
Vancouver's St. Paul's Hospital in mid-September. CBC
News

10/10/05 - Canadian broadcasters have asked the CRTC to postpone its review of conventional radio in the
wake of new technologies. Simon
Tuck, Globe and Mail

10/06/05 - President Robbie Dunn reports that
permits for construction of Kamloops' new Country FM
103.1 have been applied for; studio and transmitter equipment orders should be
finalized by October 21 with delivery and installation in the next 6 months; and a full
country music library with hits from the 60's to the present has been ordered from a
service in Texas. The station should ready by late spring or early summer of '06.

10/05/05 - The CBC is expected to be in full
operation by October 11, with some members returning to get Hockey Night in Canada on the
air by this Saturday. Terry
Weber, Globe and Mail

10/03/05 - The Canadian
Broadcasting Corporation and the Canadian Media Guild
have reached a tentative agreement. Over 5,000 CMG employees have been locked out
since August 15th. Globe
and Mail

09/23/05 - The CKOV
AM 630 Variety Children’s Radiothon raised a record $50,821 for Variety -
The Children’s Charity of BC.On
September 20 and 21, CKOV became the newest radio station to host a Variety
Children’s Radiothon in BC, joining B100 CKBZ-FM
100.1 Kamloops and The Wolf CJCI-FM 97.3
Prince George.

09/10/05 - Regarding Kamloops' new Country FM approved by the
CRTC on July 21, NL Broadcasting Ltd. President Robbie Dunn reports, "Since
receiving approval from the CRTC for the licence, we have been busy with our planning and
have now identified the equipment we need and commissioned a firm to design the interior
space. Renovations to our building should commence later this year to accommodate new
studios and offices. Next up is creating an identity for the new station and finalizing
the programming and marketing plans. We hope to be on air in early summer of 2006."

09/09/05 - Cabinet has upheld a CRTC decision to
issue two satellite radio licences after the applicants agreed to increase Canadian
content and French-language service. CP/Globe
and Mail

09/07/05 - Variety - The Children’s Charity has
announced another radiothon.The CKOV
63 Variety Children’s Radiothon will air live from the CKOV AM 630 studios in Kelowna from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. on September
20/21. The following week on September 27/28, B100 CKBZ-FM 100.1 Kamloops will host the 3rd Annual B100
Variety Children’s Radiothon. Since 1965, Variety - The Children’s
Charity has raised more than $120 million for BC’s children with special needs.

09/07/05 - A seven-person ad hoc cabinet committee
has decided to do nothing about an appeal against the CRTC ruling to approve satellite
radio in Canada. But there are still other options prior to the September 14 cut-off
date. Simon
Tuck, Globe and Mail

08/29/05 - A study commissioned last month by Sirius
Canada revealed 76% of Canadians support the CRTC's decision to approve satellite radio in
Canada. CNW
Group

08/27/05 - The fate of new satellite radio services
in Canada is still up in the air. Sylvain
Larocque, Canadian Press Elizabeth
Thompson, Montreal Gazette Richard
Blackwell & Campbell Clark, The Globe and Mail

08/17/05 - More than 90% of independent Canadian
artists support licensing of satellite radio in a survey which comes as the Federal
Cabinet is considering appeals from various special interest groups. Broadcaster
Magazine

08/17/05 - Three days into the CBC lockout, consumers are getting reruns, BBC World News and
wire story newscasts. Gayle
MacDonald and Guy Dixon, Globe and Mail

08/12/05 - The Canadian
Broadcasting Corporation has given lockout notice to 5500 Canadian Media Guild
employees, which could go into effect at 12:01 a.m. ET Monday. Labour action could
have a significant impact on program schedules, particularly radio and online coverage.
Broadcaster
Magazine CBC
release

08/03/05 - The CRTC has denied application by Standard Radio to convert CHOR AM 1450 Summerland
to the FM band. The Commission ruled that approval of the application would result
in Standard operating three stations with effective coverage in the Penticton market.
CRTC
decision

07/22/05 - Kamloops' new FM is expected to be on air
by the middle of next year. Broadcaster
Magazine Kamloops Country Radio

07/21/05 - The CRTC has approved application by NL
Broadcasting Ltd. to operate a country music station in Kamloops at 103.1 MHz with an ERP
of 5000 watts. CRTC Decision

07/13/05 - CHUM and Canadian Satellite Radio trade
remarks in press releases following notification of an appeal by CHUM/Astral Media to set
aside the recent CRTC satellite radio licensing decision. Broadcaster
Magazine Appeal
Notice CSR
Response

07/12/05 - CHUM and Astral Media are filing an
appeal to set aside the recent CRTC decision to license satellite broadcasters Canadian
Satellite Radio (XM) and Sirius Canada. CP/Globe
and Mail

07/09/05 - Canadians are listening to radio less
than a decade ago, with British Columbia the lowest in the country. CP/Globe
and Mail

06/27/05 - A coalition of
arts, labour and lobby groups is asking the federal cabinet to overturn a CRTC decision
allowing satellite broadcast operators to bring pay-radio to Canada. CP/Globe
and Mail The other point of view. The
Province

06/18/05 - With the recent approval of satellite radio in Canada, broadcasters are
expected to lobby the CRTC for looser Canadian content rules. Steven
Chase, Globe and Mail Meanwhile, there will be at least one appeal against the
Commission's ruling. Canadian
Press

06/16/05 - The two satellite applicants for
subscription radio in Canada are upbeat, but CHUM Ltd., which pitched a land-based system
is "surprised, a little stunned, and certainly disappointed". Globe
and Mail

06/16/05 - The three successful applicants for
subscription radio in Canada have responded to the decision announced at 1 p.m. PT today.
From CNW Group: XM Satellite
Radio Sirius Canada
CHUM/Astral
Media

06/16/05 - The CRTC has approved all three
subscription radio applications, two of which are to be satellite delivered - but with
Canadian content restrictions. XM decision
Sirius
decision CHUM decision
Globe
and Mail

06/10/05 - CRTC chairman Charles Dalfen has
announced that the commission will rule on subscription radio in Canada next Thursday. Two
applications are for satellite delivery partnered by XM and Sirius in the U.S. The third
is from CHUM Ltd. and Astral Media for a terrestrial delivered system. Globe
and Mail CNW Group
Globe
and Mail update

05/12/05 - Sun FM CHSU-FM 99.9 Kelowna has announced that Susan Knight
from Victoria will join Dan Freeman mornings at the station at the end of June. Broadcast Dialogue

05/11/05 - Sun FM CHSU-FM 99.9 Kelowna has announced that Tarzan
Dan Freeman will take over mornings. Well known in Canadian radio, he moves
from CHUM Toronto beginning at the end of June.

05/11/05 - Full service CHNL AM 610 holds a commanding lead in Kamloops and A/C
CILK-FM 101.5 holds onto first place in Kelowna in the
BBM Spring 2005 12+ ratings. Puget
Sound Radio details

05/06/05
- A campaign is
underway to reform Canadian radio content regulations
(CANCON)
to bolster play of lesser known artists. A group of
indie musicians is asking the CRTC to create an incentive-based system
to measure
Canadian radio content. Current regulations require
stations to play 35% Canadian
music. Globe
and Mail Let's Fix CANCON

04/27/05 - Veteran weatherman
Mike Roberts of CHBC-TV/2 Kelowna is one of seven to be
honoured with the Radio-Television News Directors
Association of Canada 2005 Lifetime Achievement Award. His career began in 1969
at CKAY Radio in Duncan. Broadcaster
Magazine Broadcast
Dialogue

03/23/05 - Long time CKOV AM 630 Kelowna news director Matt Cherrille has
been unexpectedly released from the station. Kelowna
Capital News

03/02/05 - The CRTC had denied application by
Newlife Communications Inc. for a low-power commercial FM Christian music station in
Kelowna. CRTC
decision

02/28/05 - The CRTC has approved application by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation to add transmitters in
Kelowna, Braeloch, Penticton, Vernon, Oliver, Salmon Arm, Enderby and Celista to broadcast
the programs of CBUT/2 Vancouver. CRTC decision

02/28/05 - The CRTC has approved application by Global Communications Limited to delete its CBC
English language television network affiliation from CHBC-TV/2
Kelowna. CRTC
decision

02/25/05 - The
CRTC has approved application by Standard Radio
Inc. to move CKXR AM 580
Salmon Arm to the FM band. The station will continue with its adult contemporary
music format and operate at 99.7 MHz with an average effective radiated power of
400 watts. CRTC release
Additionally, the Commission has approved application by Rogers
Broadcasting Limited to add a 10 watt transmitter at Enderby at 93.9 MHz to broadcast
the programming of CKIZ-FM 107.5 Vernon. CRTC release

02/17/05
- The CRTC has announced that the application by Newcap Inc. for a new FM station in
Kamloops has been withdrawn. The other applications will be heard at the
Commission's hearing in Vancouver starting February 28. CRTC release

01/11/05
- Standard Radio is one of four applicants for
a new FM station in Kamloops. A preview of its proposed country format is available
at the Kamloops Country website.

12/22/04
- There are three applications in front of the CRTC for country stations in Kamloops,
along with one for a broad range of music, all on varying FM frequencies. The
applications will be heard in Vancouver starting February 28, 2005. CRTC release

12/15/04
- The Fall 2004 BBM 12+ ratings have been released for Kamloops, Kelowna, Penticton and
Vernon. Full details from Puget
Sound Radio

11/03/04
- The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation has applied to
the CRTC to add TV transmitters at Kelowna, Myra, Penticton, Vernon, Oliver, Salmon Arm,
Enderby, Celista and Canoe to broadcast the programming of CBUT/2 Vancouver. CRTC application

11/03/04
- Global Communications Limited has applied to
the CRTC to amend the licence of CHBC-TV/2
Kelowna by disaffiliating from the CBC. CRTC application

11/03/04
- Rogers Broadcasting Limited has applied to the CRTC to add a transmitter at Enderby to
broadcast the programming of KISS FM CKIZ-FM
107.5 Vernon. Enderby residents are no longer able to receive the station after
it's conversion to FM. The new transmitter would operate on 93.9 MHz with an
ERP of 10 watts at 122.1 metres. CRTC application

10/29/04
- The news team of CKOV AM 630 Kelowna has been
awarded the Jack Webster Foundation 2004 Best
News Reporting - Radio award for the Kelowna Firestorm. 2004 award winners

10/14/04
- One of 53 nominees worldwide, B100 CKBZ-FM 100.1
Kamloops is the recipient of the Variety International Radio Media Award. Broadcast Dialogue
Broadcaster
Magazine

10/07/04
- A CRTC public hearing is expected to be held by March 2005 for the 5th commercial
station in the Kamloops area and the first to be licensed since 1983. NL
Broadcasting Ltd. has applied for a new country FM station on 103.1 MHz. Kamloops Country Radio

10/06/04
- The CRTC has approved application by Chase and District Lions Community Club for a
licence to operate a developmental community FM radio station in Chase. The
station will operate at 103.5 MHz with an effective radiated power of 4.7 watts. CRTC Decision

10/04/04
- In its second year of supporting Variety
- The Children’s Charity, B-100 CKBZ-FM 100.1
Kamloops hosted the B100 Variety Children’s Radiothon, raising $34,077.00
for Variety’s projects in the Kamloops area.

09/15/04
- Silk FM CILK-FM 101.5 Kelowna ended its
summer-long 80's Birthday Party after Labour Day and has moved to an 80's, 90's &
Now format.

08/27/04
- Sandy Heimlich-Hall, assistant news director/assignment editor at the Jim Pattison
broadcast group in Kamloops will run the Royal
Victoria half-marathon on October 10th this year, dedicated to ENG/cameraman Clayton
Smailes, who was diagnosed last year with Lou Gehrig's Disease. Greg
O'Brien, Broadcaster Magazine

08/04/04
- After a one year hiatus, Radio NL CJNL AM
1230 Merritt will be broadcasting all 60 British Columbia
Hockey League junior "A" Merritt
Centennials games. Keegan Goodrich will be handling play-by-play, while morning
host Brian Wiebe will provide colour commentary on selected games. The Merritt
Centennials are currently the BCHL's longest serving franchise, having been in Merritt for
over 30 years.

07/26/04
- Application for a new commercial station in Kamloops has been made by NL Broadcasting
Ltd., current owners of CHNL AM 610. The
application is for country music, a format that disappeared from the city last summer,
when B-100 CKBZ-FM 100.1 moved to classic hits.
The CRTC has invited further applications, and If approved, will be the first
all-new commercial station in Kamloops since 1984.

07/21/04
- The CRTC has received an application for a new commercial radio station to serve
Kamloops and has put out a call for further applications prior to September 21, 2004.
CRTC Notice

06/30/04
- Silk FM CILK-FM 101.5 Kelowna has moved from
a soft rock format to all 80s.

06/08/04
- The Chase and District Lions Community Club has applied to the CRTC for a licence to
operate an English-language FM developmental community radio station in Chase, to
operate at 103.5 MHz with a power of 4.7 watts. The application will be heard at a
public hearing beginning August 9 in Gatineau, Quebec. CRTC Info

06/01/04 - The Radio-Television
News Directors Association of Canada (RTNDA), at its regional meeting in Prince
George, has presented awards for the best in electronic journalism in British Columbia in
2003. Broadcaster
Magazine

05/26/04
- The Spring '04 BBM 12+ ratings have been released for Kamloops, Kelowna, Penticton and
Vernon. Puget Sound Radio
details

05/15/04
- The British Columbia Association of Broadcasters (BCAB)
has announced its 2003 Awards of Excellence, with Sun-FM CHSU-FM 99.9 Kelowna picking up Best
Creative and Community Services awards. The awards were presented
Friday at the Penticton Lakeside Resort
Convention Centre. Full list of award
winners

05/03/04
- Rafe Mair, who left CKNW AM 980 Vancouver last June, and
resurfaced at CKBD AM 600 Vancouver in early September, is now heard on
a tape delay basis from 2-4 p.m. on CKOV AM 630
Kelowna. Both CKBD and CKOV are Jim Pattison
Group stations.

04/27/04
- Giant FM CIGV-FM 100.7 Penticton recently
returned with a stereo signal. The station, which claims to have the greatest coverage of any in the B.C.
Interior, was one of several forced to operate on standby power after the Okanagan
Mountain fire of last August.

04/23/04
- The CRTC has denied application by Standard
Radio Inc. to convert CHOR AM 1450 to the FM band on grounds that the proposed
new station would have a much greater coverage area and impact existing services in
Penticton and Kelowna. CRTC decision

03/30/04
- Lt.-Cmdr.
Gerry Pash received the Minister
of Veterans Affairs Commendation from the Honourable John McCallum at a ceremony in
Vancouver on March 26th. The award citation recognizes the contribution Lt.-Cmdr.
Pash has made in the commemoration of the sacrifice of veterans. Pash was the Vice
President
and Managing Director of Okanagan Radio Limited in Penticton from 1972 to 1989.

03/28/04
- Well known broadcaster Bob Harrison passed away Saturday in Kelowna at the age of
68. He had worked at CKYL Peace River, CKNL Fort St. John and locally at SILK-FM
CILK-FM 101.5 and CKOV AM 630 Kelowna. There will
be no service by request.

01/06/04
- SILK FM CILK-FM 101.5 Kelowna recently
returned to full power after running on back-up transmitter facilities since the Okanagan
Mountain fire last August. Several stations were affected by the fire.

12/23/03
- Standard Radio Inc. has applied to the CRTC to convert CHOR AM 1450 Summerland to the FM
band. The new station would operate at
94.5 MHz with an effective radiated power of 5,000 watts non-directional at a HAAT of
230 metres with an adult contemporary music format. CRTC info

12/11/03
- BBM Fall 2003 12+ radio ratings have been released for BC Interior stations. Puget Sound Radio

12/09/03
- Sun FM CHSU-FM 99.9 and Power104 CKLZ-FM 104.7 Kelowna, which had been
running on back-up transmitter facilities since August due to the Okanagan Mountain fire,
are both back up to full power.

11/21/03
- The CRTC has approved application by development campus
radio station CFBX-FM 92.5 Kamloops to continue as a community-based
campus FM radio programming undertaking. The Kamloops
Campus/Community Radio
Society station will continue to broadcast with 4.9
watts. CRTC Decision

11/03/03
- Former VP/Managing Director of Okanagan Radio, Gerry Pash is to receive the Minister
of Veterans Affairs Commendation to outstanding citizens for their dedicated service
and remarkable achievements on behalf of Veterans. He is now Lt.-Cmdr. Gerry Pash,
Senior Staff Officer Public Affairs for Maritime Forces Pacific. Veterans
Affairs Canada news release

10/22/03 - Bob Hall passed away Tuesday, October 21
at the age of 73. He started his broadcast career at CJAV Port Alberni in
1949. He moved to CHWK Chilliwack as assistant news director and on-air
announcer in 1951. In 1952 he became news and sports director of CKOV Kelowna, where
he stayed until 1965. That year, he made successful applications for radio licences
in Salmon Arm and Revelstoke. In 1970, as Four Seasons Radio Ltd. he applied
for the second AM licence in Kelowna and obtained approval for CKIQ. In the mid
1980s Four Seasons Radio purchased CJAT Trail and CKKC Nelson/Creston. Funeral
services will be held at 3 p.m. Sunday, October 26 at The Gathering Place in Salmon Arm.

10/06/03
- The CRTC has approved applications by Jim Pattison Industries for transmitters of
Kamloops stations CKBZ-FM on 91.5 MHz and for CIFM-FM on 91.1 to operate in Sun Peaks. CRTC decision

09/23/03
- Grant Sherwood has died at the age of 63 after suffering from a heart ailment. He
moved from Edmonton to CKOK (now CKOR) Penticton, where he was appointed program director
in 1972. He was the midday host for much of his nearly 30 years with the station and
continued work as a photographer in his later years. Funeral service will be held at
St. Ann's Catholic Church 1296 Main Street, Penticton at 3.30 p.m. Friday September 26th.

09/20/03
- Bob O'Keefe died September 18th at the age of 47, at Kelowna General Hospital after a
short illness. He spent many years in the radio sales business in San Diego CA,
Edson AB and Kelowna, first with SILK-FM and finishing with SUN-FM/The Bullet.
There wil be no funeral service per his wishes. A celebration of life will be
held September 24th from 4:30-9 p.m. at 215 Mills Road.

09/01/03
- CKBZ-FM 100.1 Kamloops has moved from its Young
Country format to Classic Hits, billing itself as the All-New B-100

08/29/03
- The Bullet CKBL AM 1150 Kelowna has relaunched as CKFR Kelowna's Fun Radio
with a solid gold format. The morning
show continues to be hosted by Bullet breakfast host Dustin Collins. Sun
FM air staff are shared throughout the rest of the day. Several specialty shows
will appear over the next few weeks along with local hockey broadcasts.
Gerry O'Day of 650 CISL Vancouver will host a Sunday Seventies show.

08/22/03
- Standard Radio's EZ Rock CKOR AM 800
Penticton and The Bullet CKBL AM
1150 Kelowna have switched to 24-hour coverage of the fire situation in the BC
interior. For listeners wanting to get updates, who are beyond the range of Okanagan
stations, Sun FM CHSU-FM 99.9
Kelowna has a live Internet feed. The Listen Now link is located near the
bottom of the station's home page.

08/22/03
- CIGV-FM 100.7 Penticton has returned to the air
with reduced power. Also operating at limited power are CHSU-FM 99.9, CILK-FM
101.5 and CKLZ-FM 104.7 Kelowna, which share
transmitter facilities south of the city. At this time, the fire continues to rage
in the Okanagan Mountain area and has grown to 13,000 hectares. Ministry
of Forests fire info CILK-FM Silk-FM
updatesCKLZ-FM Power
FM updates Meanwhile outages have occurred at the TV transmitters serving
Penticton affecting air signals from channel 10 and 13.

08/20/03
- The former Vice-President, Managing Director of Okanagan Radio, Gerry Pash recently
received a public affairs award from the Assistant Minister of National Defence.
Now, Lt.-Cmdr. Gerry Pash, Senior Staff Officer Public Affairs for Maritime Forces
Pacific, he also looks after public affairs for the cadet program in B.C as a secondary
duty. Named BCAB Broadcaster Citizen of the year in 1983 he has been with the Navy
Public Affairs Office since 1990. He is also a recipient of the Queen's Golden
Jubilee Medal from Lt.-Gov. Iona Campagnolo who was BC Broadcaster Citizen of the Year in
1973. Photo

08/19/03
- CIGV-FM 100.7 Penticton is reportedly off the air.
The station's transmitter is located on Okanagan Mountain, where a 2,200 hectare
forest fire is currently burning. Ministry
of Forests fire info

08/12/03
- A joint venture with U.S.-based XM Satellite Radio
is to apply to the CRTC for a licence to launch in Canada. Sirius also expresses interest. Toronto
Star

08/07/03
- The founder of CIGV-FM 100.7 Penticton has passed
away. Ralph Robinson died just three days before he would have celebrated his 77th
birthday.

08/01/03
- The CRTC has approved application to increase the power of CILC-FM Magna Bay, a
rebroadcaster of CILK-FM Kelowna, to 50 watts. CRTC Info

07/31/03
- CBC Radio has moved up to third place among radio
formats, according to a Statistics Canada
report. Allison
Dunfield, The Globe and Mail

07/31/03 - The
Kamloops Campus/Community Radio Society has applied to the CRTC for a regular campus radio
licence to replace the developmental one granted by the Commission on February 16, 2001.
The station, CFBX-FM would operate
on 92.5 MHz with the current technical parameters. CRTC Info

06/29/03 - Bob
Leckie, manager of CKWL Williams Lake for many years prior to his retirement in 1982, died
Friday (June 27) of cancer at age 77. He received the B.C. Association of
Broadcasters Broadcast Citizen of the Year award in 1978 and had been part owner
of Cariboo Broadcasters, which also operated CKCQ Quesnel and CKBX 100 Mile House.

06/23/03 - An
update and photos for Radio NL CJNL AM 1230
Merritt as it bucks the trend by extending local radio programming. Broadcaster Magazine
Broadcast
Dialogue

06/19/03 - Radio
NL CJNL AM 1230 Merritt is extending local
programming starting Monday June 23. The morning show with Brian Wiebe and newsman
Al Clarke will be extended two hours until noon and p.m. host Al Fluskey will be on
air from noon to 6. The midday launch will include BC/Yukon CRTC Commissioner
Cindy Grauer, CRTC Vancouver Regional Office Director Marguerite Vogel and Merritt Mayor
David Laird. The station will continue to carry News Magazine from
affiliate CHNL Kamloops at 7:30 a.m., noon and 4:30 p.m.

05/13/03
- Former CFOX-FM Vancouver PD
and most recently VP & GM of Torstar Media Group and
Star TV in Toronto, Don Shafer
has been appointed to the position of VP & GM of
Standard Broadcasting - BC Interior Group. Canada NewsWire

04/10/03 - Broadcaster Bob Kerr died
Tuesday night in North Vancouver at the age of 85. He hosted Off the Record
daily for 35 years on CBC Stereo. CBC Info

04/04/03 - Canadian broadcasters are concerned that
the CRTC will increase Canadian content from 35 to 40
percent. Barbara
Shecter, Financial Post

03/21/03 - The British Columbia Association of
Broadcasters 56th Annual Conference is scheduled for Kelowna May 14-16. Details at BCAB website

02/23/03 - CIGV-FM
100.7 "Giant FM" Penticton, the last FM station in the Thompson-Okanagan to
do so, has launched a new website.

02/12/03 - The CRTC has denied application by the
Kelowna Radio Club for a low-power community FM station in Kelowna. Five local
broadcasters submitted interventions opposing the new station, arguing that the proposed
music format would duplicate existing services. CRTC decision

01/09/03 - Rogers
Radio has once again shuffled
official call letters, as noted in the latest Industry
Canada database, for KISS-FM 107.5 Kelowna to CKIZ-FM. The CKIS-FM
call has been returned to KISS-FM 96.9 Calgary.

01/08/03 - After less than a year and a half on air,
Vancouver-produced suppertime newscast Global National with Kevin
Newman is outdrawing CBC's The National and
closing in on CTV's
nightly newscast. Michael
Lewis, National Post

12/06/02 - CTV has
announced that Jim Rusnak has been named vice-president and
general manager, CTV British Columbia, effective Jan. 1, 2003.
Broadcaster Magazine

10/23/02
- Bob Mills, former PD at CFOX-FM 99.3 Vancouver, is
assuming the role at CKOV AM 630 and CKLZ-FM 104.7 Kelowna. He replaces 14-year
veteran Rob Bye, who moves to Lethbridge as GM of CHLB-FM
95.5 and CHHK-FM 93.3. Milkman Info

10/15/02
- The Canadian Association of Broadcasters has
announced that Jim Pattison will be awarded the 2002 Gold Ribbon for Broadcast Excellence,
Canadian private broadcasting's most prestigiuos. The award will be presented at the
CAB's 76th annual convention to be held at the Vancouver
Convention and Exhibition Centre, October 20-22. The Jim Pattison Broadcast Group operates three
television and over 20 radio stations in B.C. and Alberta. CAB Release

10/12/02
- Two new programs begin on CBC Radio One, with
the return of Shelagh Rogers to host "Sounds Like Canada", weekday mornings from
10 a.m. to noon starting Monday and Anna Maria Tremonti's "Currents" from
8:30 a.m. to 10 a.m., premiering Nov. 18. Michael
Posner, The Globe and Mail

10/03/02
- After over 10,000 emails and a myriad of phone calls to the CBC,
the corporation has re-signed Hockey Night in
Canada host Ron McLean for a four-year $450,000 annual deal. HNIC has been
running for 50 years. Globe
and Mail CBC
Release

09/06/02
- The CBC-TV Fiftieth Anniversary VIA Rail Train will be on display at
1150 Station Street in Vancouver
from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday Sept. 7 before journeying accross Canada. The next stop in
the tour is the Lorne Street Station in Kamloops from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Sunday Sept. 8. The train is travelling coast-to-coast displaying fifty years of
CBC-TV history, with the final stop in Halifax on Oct. 5.

09/06/02
- The CRTC salutes the Fiftieth Anniversary of the
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's television service.
The French-language service debuted on Sept. 6, 1952 in Montreal, with
English-language service beginning in Toronto Sept. 8, 1952. CBUT/2 Vancouver officially signed on Dec. 16,
1953. CRTC
Release

08/14/02
- CBC Television is celebrating its 50th
birthday with a month of special programming in September. The first CBC TV stations
signed on in Toronto and Montreal in 1952, with CBUT/2
Vancouver debuting on December 16, 1953. John
McKay, Canadian Press CBC 50-year info

07/24/02 - CBC-TV journalist Anna Marie Tremonti
has been named to host the, as yet untitled, CBC
Radio One national weekday 8:30-to-10 ET morning show launching Nov. 18. Antonia
Zerbisias, The Star

07/12/02 - The CRTC will hear application September
17 in Toronto by the Kelowna Radio Club for a low power FM community type B radio station
in Kelowna. Proposed format is hard rock and heavy metal with some Christian rock
and special interest music. CRTC Info

06/25/02 - Soccer fans who can't be in front of a TV
set can listen to the FIFA 2002 World Cup Final on CBC Radio One starting at 3:30 a.m. PT
Sunday June 30. CBC
News Release Live TV coverage is on CBC
Television and KOMO-TV Seattle.

06/15/02 - As the CBC
gets set to overhaul its Radio One programming this fall, Shelagh Rogers has been
announced as the host of a new weekday flagship morning show. Jon
Bricker, National Post

06/05/02 - Andy James will become the new morning
host & PD at CILK-FM 101.5 "Silk" Kelowna starting June 17th.
He leaves mornings at CKMM-FM 103.1
"Hot 103" Winnipeg.

06/05/02 - Restructuring of CBC
Radio One began yesterday with the naming of team leaders to implement the proposed
changes. Gayle
MacDonald, Globe and Mail

06/05/02 - CBC
Television marks its 50th anniversary this coming September with looks both forward and
backward. John
McKay, Canadian Press Gayle
MacDonald, Globe and Mail

06/02 02 - CBC
Radio Two will air a special tribute to Otto Lowy this afternoon to mark the passing
of the longtime host of The
Transcontinental. The program will be heard at 1 p.m.

05/28/02 - Long-time CBC
radio personality Otto Lowy has died at the age of 81. He had hosted the Transcontinental from
Vancouver for 22 years on Radio Two. CBC News
Release

05/28/02 - The successor to media mogul Ted Rogers,
founder of Rogers Communications Inc. will likely not
be a family member. Rogers Radio operates a number of stations in this area. Keith
Damsell, Globe and Mail

05/26/02 - Spring 2002 BBM 12+ market share for
Kelowna shows CHSU-FM 99.9 "Sun-FM" in first place with 18.2, CILK-FM 101.5
"Silk" second with 17.7 and CKLZ-FM 104.7 "Power" third with
17.4. Full List
Info from Milkman Unlimited

05/11/02 - Broadcast pioneer Fred Weber passed away
in West Vancouver May 7th of pneumonia after a lengthy battle with cancer. He was
born in 1922 in Alberta. He had been an engineer, announcer and executive, involved
with radio, TV and cable stations in the Okanagan and northwest B.C., including CKOV,
CFCR, CKCQ, CFTK, CKTK, CHTK, CJFW-FM and CKOK. He was inducted into the Canadian
Broadcast Hall of Fame in 1988. A memorial service will be held at West Vancouver
United Church, 2062 Esquimalt Ave., West Vancouver on Saturday, May 18 at 11 a.m.
Canadian Communications Foundation biography

05/07/02
- The CBC is eliminating "This Morning" but will
retain the 25-year-old parliamentary show "The House" from its Radio One lineup.
Chris
Cobb, National Post

05/07/02
- Vancouver scientist, professor, environmentalist and 30-year broadcaster Dr. David Suzuki
has been chosen as this year's recipient of ACTRA's John
Drainie Award. Suzuki hosts CBC's "The
Nature of Things" on CBC Television. The
Globe & Mail

04/19/02 - The CRTC
has approved the purchase by Standard Radio of 64 radio stations and
2 television stations belonging to Telemedia Radio Inc. Included in this area
are stations in Kelowna, Penticton, Vernon, Osoyoos, Princeton, Salmon Arm and Summerland.
CRTC Details

04/07/02 - Three Canadian TV networks, CBC, CTV and Global, plus CBC Radio will have live coverage of the Queen
Mother's funeral, most beginning at 3 a.m. PDT. John
McKay, Canadian Press (Times in item are EDT)

03/26/02 - The CBC is about to cut two highly rated programs, This Morning
and The House, from its Radio One service.
Chris
Cobb, Ottawa Citizen

03/09/02 - An aging CBC Radio audience is a growing cause for concern by the
Corporation brass. Gayle
MacDonald, Globe and Mail

02/23/02 - Although panned by some, CBC Television is pulling over six million viewers for some
Olympic events. John
McKay, National Post

02/18/02 - Veteran Canadian broadcaster Harvey Kirck
has died of a heart attack at his home northeast of Toronto. He was 73. Kirck
sat at the CTV News anchor desk for 20 years, starting in
1963. He was joined by Lloyd Robertson in 1976. Kirck was also heard on radio
on the now defunct CKO-FM news network. Pulse 24

02/05/02 - The CBC is
planning a radical revamp of its national Radio One service this fall, with a
"younger sound" to weekday morning and Saturday programs. Chris
Cobb, Ottawa Citizen

02/05/02 - Roger Gallaway, a veteran Liberal Member
of Parliament and member of the Commons heritage committee, says CBC television should
lose its government funding, which this year amounts to $796 million. Jane
Taber, National Post

02/02/02 - CBC director of corporate communications
Martine Menard says comments about shutting down the English language TV network were out
of date and out of touch. John
McKay, Canadian Press

02/01/02 - Robert
O'Reilly, the former head of CBC's
shortwave service, has told a broadcasters' conference in
London, England that the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation should shut
down its
English-language television network "as soon as
possible." Chris
Wattie, National Post

02/01/02 - Laurie Irvine, well known CKWX Vancouver
broadcaster of the fifties, passed away January 23rd of a heart condition. He was
born October 20, 1913 and spent over 50 years in broadcasting, including CFJC in Kamloops.
He headed up the Broadcast and Media Communications program at British Columbia
Institute of Technology from 1964 to 1974. A memorial will be held at 2 p.m.
Saturday at Boal Chapel in North Vancouver.

01/24/02 - Peter Gzowski has died at
the age of 67. He was host of "This Country in the Morning" from 1971 to
1974, and "Morningside" from 1982 to 1997 on CBC Radio
and CBC-TV's "90 Minutes Live" from 1976 to 1978. John
Saunders, Globe and Mail CBC Backgrounder

01/23/02 - Peter Gzowski, one of
Canada's best known radio personalities and host of CBC Morningside from 1982 to 1997, is
gravely ill with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Yahoo! Canada (Reuters) John
McKay, Canadian Press

01/18/02 - In tribute to the passing of Frank
Shuster, CBC Television will air a one hour Wayne and Shuster
special on Sunday January 20 at 8 p.m.

12/20/01 - Telemedia Radio's sign-on of CICF FM 105.7 Vernon, from AM 1050, and CJMG FM 97.1 Penticton now have assumed the
slogan of "SUN-FM", the same as sister station CHSU FM 99.9 Kelowna.

12/20/01 - With CJIB Vernon moving to FM and using
the new slogan of KISS-FM, official call letters have changed to CKIS FM 107.5.

12/14/01 - Next Tuesday CTV
celebrates 25 years as news anchor for 67-year old Lloyd Robertson. His newscasts
are viewed nightly on CIVT-TV "BC CTV"
Vancouver, available on cable in the BC Interior. John
McKay, Canadian Press

11/29/01 - Communications Lawyer Charles Dalfen has
been appointed Chairman of the Canadian Radio-television
and Communications Commission, effective January 1, 2002. Simon
Tuck, Globe and Mail

11/28/01 - Trina McQueen is retiring as president of
broadcaster CTV Inc. on January 7. Barbara
Shecter, National Post

11/28/01 - The CRTC
has approved application by Telemedia Radio to move station CICF AM 1050 Vernon to FM 105.7. This is a change
from previous approval to move to FM 105.5. CRTC Info

11/15/01 - Broadcast pioneer Joe Chesney passed away
Saturday, November 10 at the age of 82. He began in radio as a trainee announcer at
CFJC Kamloops in 1946. After a few months, he moved to CJAV Port Alberni until the
following year when he went to CKNW New Westminster. "Uncle Joe" had a
vast knowledge of country music and progressed to the morning show at 'NW in October
1947. He founded CJJC Langley in 1963. A Celebration of Life is scheduled for
1 p.m. Saturday November 24 at Langley United Church, 5673 200th St.

11/08/01 - "Vernon's First Ever FM
Station", CJIB FM 107.5 is on the air,
simulcasting with their 940 AM. They have revamped their website with a new url,
which is also forwarded from their old site. The new slogan is Kiss FM, Today's Best
Music. The station is authorized to continue running the AM station for a period of
three months.

11/04/01 - Geoff
White, Operations Manager at CICF AM 1050 "Mix 105" Vernon, advises that
their new FM transmitter has undergone some preliminary
testing for Industry Canada. The station is awaiting approval
from the CRTC to change their new FM frequency from
105.5 to 105.7 to protect the ILS (Instrument Landing
System) beacon at the Kelowna
airport. The CRTC has approved the move to the FM
band. CRTC Info

11/04/01 - OKANAGAN
BROADCASTERS has expanded it's coverage area to include Kamloops south to
Princeton.

11/03/01 - CJIB FM
107.5 Vernon has started testing their new FM transmitter. After official
sign-on and subsequent simulcast with their AM 940 signal, they will have three months to
pull the plug on the AM transmitter which has been on air since September 1947. CRTC Info
(Note, CRTC decision specifies power as "average" ERP whereas this
website uses the "peak" standard provided by Industry Canada.)

10/27/01 - Radio-Info.com
has added a new Canadian Radio Discussion Board
designed for quality discussions of radio across Canada. The website also features
discussion boards for most major U.S. cities.

10/01/01
- Geoff White, Operations Manager at CICF AM
1050 Vernon reports that it was their auxiliary transmitter that had been re-routed to
New York following the terrorist attacks (see 09/16/01 below). It has now been
replaced. The station has been approved by the CRTC
to move to FM
105.5.

09/25/01
- CJIB AM 940 Vernon has switched their audio stream
from RealPlayer to Media Player to improve the audio quality. As noted earlier, the
station received CRTC
approval March 22 to move to FM 107.5.

09/23/01
- Contributions continue to pour in after "America: a Tribute to Heroes" aired
Friday evening on over 30 US TV networks, including CTV and Global in Canada, and on
numerous radio stations. Lee-Anne
Goodman, The Province

09/21/01
- A two-hour live, commercial-free, simulcast to raise funds for a long-term relief
effort for Americans who have directly suffered from last week's terrorist attacks, will
air tonight from 9:00 - 11:00 p.m. PT. The program, "America: a Tribute to
Heroes" will run on CTV, Global and other TV stations and will be distributed to 400
radio stations by Broadcast News, a division of Canadian Press. In the US, it will
be on every major TV network as well as about two dozen cable networks and eight thousand
radio stations. It also will be webcast live on the internet at http://www.tributetoheroes.org.

09/16/01 - According to a news item on Milkman Unlimited, CICF AM 1050 Vernon may get their switch from AM to FM
delayed as their new transmitter is said to have been re-routed to New York following
Tuesday's tragic events. Four FM and eight TV stations were knocked off the air as their
transmitters were on the roof of the World Trade Center. Fox TV news reports that
the only local TV currently broadcasting in New York are CBS and an independent station.

09/12/01 - The CRTC
has approved application by Telemedia Radio (West) Inc. to move CICF AM 1050 "Mix 105" to the FM band.
The new station will operate at 105.5 MHz with an average effective radiated power of
46,000 watts. CRTC Info

09/05/01 - One of the longest-running public
advocacy and protection shows in the world, Goldhawk
Fights Back with Dale Goldhawk, has been cancelled by the CTV
Network after a ten year run. Goldhawk
press release

08/31/01 - Midnight tonight and the early hours of
Saturday morning mark the big British Columbia TV network shuffle, affecting viewing
throughout the Okanagan and the rest of BC. Here is the new lineup: CHAN-TV/8 "Global BC"
Vancouver from CTV to Global; and CIVT-TV/32
"BC CTV" Vancouver from Independent to CTV.
Also affected on the coast are CHEK-TV/6
"CH" Victoria from CTV affiliation to Global and CKVU-TV/10 "ckvu13"
(reflecting its local cable position) Vancouver from Global to Independent.

08/31/01 - Of interest to some Okanagan radio
listeners is the sign-on today of CKBZ FM 100.1
"B-100" Kamloops. The new Young Country station broadcasts with a peak ERP
of 3500 watts at 147 metres HAAT, with repeaters in Pritchard and Chase. CKBZ
replaces CJJC AM 550, which has been in operation since 1926. The AM will continue
to simulcast for a period of up to three months. CRTC Info

08/31/01 - Communications Lawyer and former VP of
the CRTC, Charles Dalfen
has been nominated to lead the Canadian regulator. He is a partner at the law firm Torys. Ian
Jack, National Post

08/29/01 - New website link has been added to the AM Page for CHOR AM 1450
Summerland.

08/29/01 - New website link has been added to the AM Page for CJOR AM 1240
Osoyoos.

08/29/01 - New website link has been added to the FM Page for CJOR FM 102.9
Oliver.

08/29/01 - New website link has been added to the AM Page for CKXR AM 580 Salmon Arm "EZ
Rock".

08/26/01 - With just six days left until the massive
TV switcheroo in the Vancouver/Victoria market, which will affect viewing habits
throughout the province, here come the news stories.

08/26/01 - Here is a closer look at the Vancouver TV
changes with focus on News. Bill Good starts the 6 p.m. news September 3 on CIVT-TV/32 Vancouver "CTV British
Columbia", while co-host Pamela Martin doesn't debut until October 8, due to
contractual obligations.

08/02/01 - The CRTC
has renewed the licences of CTV and Global networks and their affiliated television
stations in Canada - subject to a number of conditions. CRTC News Release

08/02/01 - The
CRTC has approved applications by CTV, acting on
behalf of cable companies, to carry the programming of CIVT (Vancouver Television) on cable
systems in the Interior. CIVT is owned by CTV and will commence carrying CTV
programming on September 1st. At that time CHAN
(BCTV), now owned by CanWest Global will
begin carrying Global programs. CRTC Decision

08/01/01 - The
CRTC has approved application by Jim Pattison
Industries Ltd. to move CFJC AM 550 Kamloops to FM
100.1 with an average effective radiated power of 3,500 watts. Also
approved were rebroadcast transmitters at Pritchard on 104.5 with an ERP of
19 watts and at Chase on 101.1 with an ERP of 140 watts. CRTC Info

07/30/01 - Veteran country music announcer Bob
Bye has passed away just short of his 75th birthday. Bob died of a heart attack
earlier this month at his home in Penticton. He began his broadcasting career on the
Prairies, in Regina and Winnipeg but was best known for his many years, starting in 1966,
at former country giant CKWX AM 1130 Vancouver,
where he retired in 1989. Bob's son, Rob Bye is on the air middays on CKLZ FM 104.7 "Power 104" Kelowna.

07/26/01 - Rogers
Communications Inc., operator of a number BC radio stations
including CJIB AM 940 Vernon, reported a wider second-quarter loss
as "disappointing" results from its wireless operations
overshadowed solid
revenue growth across all the company's businesses.
Terry
Weber, Globe and Mail

07/11/01 - The Canadian
Broadcasting Corporation has cancelled the sale of its transmission assets. - Sinclair
Stewart, National Post

07/04/01 - Pamela Martin has left BCTV to join Vancouver's CIVT-TV "VTV". She and Bill Good, who made a similar switch in
May, will anchor their 6 pm news. Network affiliations of Vancouver TV stations will
be changing September 1 with VTV becoming the new CTV
affiliate and BCTV becoming Global.

06/29/01 - Twenty radio stations in B.C., several of
which are in the Okanagan, are part of a package of 60 stations sold Thursday by
Montreal-based Telemedia Corp. to Standard Broadcasting Corp. of Toronto. -

06/28/01 - Standard Broadcasting has announced that
it has bought Telemedia's radio stations in Western Canada and Ontario. Standard
currently owns CKZZ FM 95.3 & CISL AM 650 Vancouver. Telemedia operates several
stations in the BC Interior. Globe
and Mail story The
Fan 590 story

06/26/01 - Greg
Shannon is no longer doing mornings
at CHSU FM 99.9 "Sun FM" Kelowna. John
Bazyl returns to afternoon drive after a year of co-hosting
the morning show.
Returning to host breakfast at Sun is Ray Grover, who left
last summer to join CFEX FM 107.3 "Extreme FM" Victoria. -
Info from Milkman Unlimited

06/04/01 - CRTC
hearings start June 19th in Hull, Quebec to decide on a number of matters including an
application by Telemedia Radio to move CICF AM 1050
Vernon to FM 105.5 with an effective radiated power of 46,000 watts. The applicant
is proposing a "Hot Adult Contemporary/CHR format". CRTC Info (item 26)

05/26/01 - Yet more on the continuing sage of
Canadians watching US TV - George
Bragues, National Post

05/15/01 - The CRTC
has approved application by SILK FM Broadcasting (CILK FM 101.5 Kelowna) to add a
transmitter at Magna Bay. The low power station will operate on FM 94.7 with an ERP
of 6.3 watts. CRTC Website info

05/14/01 - Veteran Newsman Bob Livingston passed
away in Kelowna hospital from a very short battle with Cancer. He spent many years
on the west coast with CFUN and CKLG and had moved to Salmon Arm a few years ago. He
spent the last year at KBS in the West Kootenays.

05/10/01 - New website address added for CKLZ FM 104.7 "Power 104".

04/30/01 - More on the continuing saga of Canadians
watching American TV - Matthew
Fraser, National Post

04/24/01 - Canadians may receive US signals with
antennas, but not with dishes - National
Post editorial

04/20/01 - State has no place in the newsroom - Matthew
Fraser, National Post

04/19/01 - Local content key to future of Canadian
television. Zena
Olijnyk, National Post story.

04/16/01 - Ottawa, The
CRTC, Cancon
and the Canadian TV Networks - Matthew
Fraser, National Post

04/14/01 - House of Commons committee to launch
probe into Canada's TV industry. National
Post story

03/29/01 - The CRTC
has approved an application by Telemedia for a corporate reorganization. CRTC Info

03/22/01 - Rogers
Broadcasting station CJIB AM 940 Vernon, on air
since Sept. 1947, has won approval from the CRTC to
move to FM 107.5 with an ERP of 46,000 watts. It will be the city's first commercial
FM. CRTC
info

03/16/01 - The CRTC
will hold hearings starting April 17th on
the carriage of CTV programming in the BC Interior. On
September 1, CHAN (BCTV) Vancouver, and CHEK Victoria will become
Global affiliates, while CTV
owned CIVT Vancouver becomes the CTV affiliate. CRTC
info

03/07/01 - I want my MTV!
More thoughts on overhauling the CRTC by
Matthew
Fraser, National Post.

03/05/01 - Crusade to purify private TV in Canada is
a waste of money. Matthew
Fraser, National Post

03/03/01 - The Government of Canada is establishing
a task force to determine the future of the Canadian
Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission. National
Post story

03/01/01 - The House of Commons heritage committee
will launch hearings this spring into the future of the Canadian broadcasting system.
National
Post story

02/01 - OKANAGAN
BROADCASTERS pays tribute to two air
personalities well known to BC radio
listeners. Rick Honey passed away February 24 after a
courageous battle with throat
cancer. He had completed his last air shift just two
days earlier at CKBD AM 600 Vancouver. Daryl Burlingham, known on
air as Daryl B, died of a stroke in Winnipeg February 27.

01/01 - New website link added to the AM Station
Page for CKOR AM 800 Penticton.

12/00 - The CRTC
has granted approval for BCE Inc. to assume control of
Canadian television network CTV Inc. Details from CRTC
website.

12/00 - CBC Television
is converting their satellite signal distribution to their stations across Canada from
analog to digital during December and January. Further information.

08/00 - The CRTC
has approved applications by the CBC to add the following Radio Two transmitters: FM 89.7
in Kelowna with an erp of 6000 watts and FM 105.3 in Kamloops with an erp of 4750 watts.
Projected startup date is November, 2000.